US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Aug. 25 for "Method for supplementing a component of a medical instrument" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,296, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for supplementing a component of a medical instrument" was invented by Lars Hedemann (Tuttlingen, Germany), Andreas Heni (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Markus Kupferschmid (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supplementing a component (20) of a medical instrument (10) by way of a plastic component comprises the steps of inserting (106) the component (20) of the medical instrument (10) into a casting mold (70) and closing (107) the casting mold (70), a first region (72) of a mold surface of the casting mold (70) being pl...