ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,512, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical instrument and steering gear for same" was invented by Janosz Schneider (Donaueschingen, Germany), Dominik Langle (Mulheim, Germany), Sven Axel Gruner (Trossingen, Germany) and Jochen Stefan (Wald, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering gear for a surgical instrument having a shaft and an angling mechanism at the distal end of the shaft, includes two motorised drives and is designed to spatially adjust a wobble plate via the adjustment angle of the two drives. The two drives each have a drive wheel driven designed as a double wh...