US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Feb. 17 for "Surgical instrument, tool device for such a surgical instrument, and method for producing such a tool device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,227, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Surgical instrument, tool device for such a surgical instrument, and method for producing such a tool device" was invented by Eugen Herner (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany), Hannes Kizenberger (Immendingen, Germany), Nikolaus Hafner (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Erik Walberg (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument, a tool device for a surgical instrument, a method for producing a tool device, and a use of a tool device in a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes a shaft, a tool device having a first and a second jaw ...