ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,855, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical system distributed processing" was invented by David C. Yates (Morrow, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, 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 processor. The surgical hub system also comprises a distributed control s...