ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,072, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Cloud analytics packages" was invented by Frederick L. Shelton IV (New Vienna, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio) and Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples here describe a surgical system that may include a cloud computing system, a surgical hub, and a surgical instrument. The cloud computing system may be configured to aggregate data from multiple surgical devices. The surgical hub may determine whether communication is available with the cloud c...