ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,874, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Medical instrument" was invented by Jana Schuele (Kreenheinstetten, Germany), Jian Zoing Tan (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Christoph Rothweiler (Donaueschingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument includes a handle with a fixed part, a movable part, a locking device, a shaft releasably locked on the handle by the locking device, and a jaw arranged on the shaft. The jaw is movable between open and closed positions by actuation of the movable part. A push-pull element is guided in the shaft and operatively connected to the movable part and t...