ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,600, issued on Nov. 3.
"Hand-held medical instrument" was invented by Walid El-Khatib (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand instrument is provided with a handpiece and a scraping blade arranged distally of the handpiece and a chip chamber (30), of which the scraping blade is designed for scraping in particular bones and is arranged in such a way that chips scraped by means of the scraping blade enter the chip chamber and the scraping blade extends in a plane inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the handpiece. The handpiece is designed as a handle with three finger rests and a proximal support rest, wherein the three...