US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 3 for "Simulation-based surgical procedure planning system" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,506, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Simulation-based surgical procedure planning system" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Dwight Alan Meglan (Westwood, Mass.) and Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for generating a surgical procedure plan via surgical simulation may include a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain an indication of a surgical task. The surgical task may be associated with a surgical step of the surgical procedure plan. The processor may be configured t...