US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Aug. 19 for "Bipolar sealing instrument with partly automated actuating mechanism" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,267, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Bipolar sealing instrument with partly automated actuating mechanism" was invented by Thomas Maser (Zimmern ob Rottweil, Germany), Eugen Herner (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Erik Walberg (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar sealing instrument includes a first actuating mechanism for manual actuation of a tool provided at a distal instrument tip at least in a low-load working force range. A second actuating mechanism includes an electric motor configured to be automatically activated when a high-load working force range is reac...