ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,114, issued on Feb. 24, 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), Jochen Stefan (Wald, Germany) and Christina Specker HeiB (Emmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering gear for a surgical instrument includes two motorized drives designed to spatially align a wobble plate via the adjustment angle of the two drives, which is designed to control a distal angling mechanism of the surgical instrument. A first of the two drives has a first motor, which drives a d...