ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,789, issued on June 9, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Aggregation and reporting of surgical hub data" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Daniel W. Price (Loveland, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical hub systems are disclosed. A surgical hub system comprises a surgical hub configured to communicably couple to a modular device comprising a sensor configured to detect data associated with the modular device and a device processor. The surgical hub comprises a hub processor, a hub memory coupled to the hub pr...