ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,807, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Aggregated network of surgical hubs for efficiency analysis" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio) and Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may obtain and aggregate surgical monitoring data associated with multiple surgical procedures in multiple operating rooms (ORs), and the surgical monitoring data may be obtained via the surgical hubs in the ORs. Surgical resource utilization adjustments may be generated based on th...