US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Sept. 22 for "Surgical instrument and steering mechanism therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,798, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Surgical instrument and steering mechanism therefor" was invented by Janosz Schneider (Donaueschingen, Germany), Dominik Langle (Mulheim, Germany) and Jochen Stefan (Wald, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering mechanism for a surgical instrument having a shaft. The steering mechanism is disposed on the shaft and the shaft includes a bending mechanism. The steering mechanism has two motor-driven drives configured to spatially align a swash plate which controls the distal bending mechanism. The first drive has a first drive shaft driven...