US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Sept. 8 for "Articulating surgical instrument" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,955, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Articulating surgical instrument" was invented by Matthew Robert Penny (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector of surgical instrument includes a distal jaw with a stem extending proximally from the distal jaw. The stem is captured between a medial component and a lateral component. An axial post integrated with the medial component extends through a collar in the step into an opening in the lateral component."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2024, under Application No. 18/434,592.

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