US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Sept. 1 for "Bearing assembly of a swash plate in a steering gear component, and surgical instrument" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,621, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KARL STORZ S.E. & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Bearing assembly of a swash plate in a steering gear component, and surgical instrument" was invented by Janosz Schneider (Donaueschingen, Germany), Sven Axel Gruner (Trossingen, Germany), Dominik Langle (Mulheim, Germany) and Jochen Stefan (Wald, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly of a swash plate in a steering gear component of a surgical instrument is disclosed. The swash plate being rotatable about an axis of rotation in a receiving opening of the steering gear component. The swash plate has an outer peripheral surface ...