US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 7 for "Surgical computing system with intermediate model support" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,916, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical computing system with intermediate model support" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical computing device may include a processor configured to implement two neural networks, a primary neural network trained with a procedure focus and support neural network trained with a patient focus. Data indicative of a surgical patient, a target procedure, and a proposed procedure plan may be input to the support neural network. The support neural network may ...