ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,136, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Trocar for a surgical instrument" was invented by Thorsten Juergens (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Noe (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trocar for use with a surgical instrument. The trocar including; a proximal trocar head; a trocar shaft arranged on the trocar head, the trocar shaft is configured to receive an elongated shaft of the surgical instrument, and a positioning device provided on the proximal trocar head and being movable between retracted and extracted states relative to the trocar head, the positioning device being con...