ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,963, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Integrated RFID tag in a manual instrument" was invented by Roland-Alois Hoegerle (Tuttlingen, Germany), Frederick Lenzenhuber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Ralf Pfister (Trossingen, Germany) and Andre Buerk (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical manual instrument has an instrument body with at least one effector portion, at least one gripping portion and an RFID tag. The RFID tag is preferably a glass/ceramic tag housed in the instrument body in a recessed manner. A cut-out or an open section is formed in the instrument body in a ...