ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,922, issued on July 7, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method for communicating with surgical instrument systems" was invented by Shailendra K. Parihar (Mason, Ohio), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati), Christopher J. Hess (Blue Ash, Ohio), Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio) and Jason L Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting the operation of a surgical instrument using machine learning in a surgical suite is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of gathering data during surgical procedures, w...