ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,312, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical data system and control" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Kevin Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to process data associated with a surgical event of a surgery may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive multiple data streams during the surgical event. The processor may be configured to select a primary data stream based on a surgical data interface via which the primary data stream is received. The processor may be configured to select a secondary data stream b...