ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,716, issued on May 26, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Medical instrument and method for producing a medical instrument" was invented by Daniel Morales (Nendingen, Germany), Dominic Faitsch (Neuhausen, Germany) and Daniel Weisser (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument and method for producing a medical instrument. The medical instrument includes at least one instrument arm. A toothing with at least two teeth is formed on a distal end of the instrument arm. Each of the teeth project transversely from the distal end and has two tooth flanks facing away from one another. E...