US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on May 26 for "Medical instrument" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,032, issued on May 26, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical instrument" was invented by Janosz Schneider (Donaueschingen, Germany), Daniel Karcher (Tuttlingen, Germany), Robin Merz (Tuttlingen, Germany), Sven Schneider (Tuttlingen, Germany), Tobias Unger (Tuttlingen, Germany), Dominik Langle (Muhlheim-Stetten, Germany) and Judith Ponisch (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument (1) includes a hollow rod (2), at the distal end (3) of which a tool carrier (4) can be secured by a first fastening mechanism (5), and the proximal end (6) of which can be secured to an operatin...