ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,493, issued on March 24, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical instrument and steering mechanism for same" was invented by Dominik Langle (Mulheim, Germany), Janosz Schneider (Donaueschingen, Germany), Jochen Stefan (Wald, Germany) and Sven Axel Gruner (Trossingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a steering mechanism for a surgical instrument. The steering mechanism has two motorized drives and is designed to spatially align a swash plate over the control angle of the two drives, said swash plate being designed to control a distal bending mechanism of the surgical in...