US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Jan. 20 for "Colorectal surgery post-surgical monitoring" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,515, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Colorectal surgery post-surgical monitoring" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Chad Edward Eckert (Terrace Park, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and Andreas N. Ward (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for measuring and monitoring patient biomarkers for detecting or predicting a post-surgical colorectal complication may be provided. A post-surgical colorectal complication may be predicted or detected by comparing measured/processed patient biomarker data with a corresponding determined thresho...