ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,125, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AESCULAP AG (Germany).

"Smart drill machine with data monitoring/smart medical electric drive instrument with data monitoring" was invented by Simon Miller (DeiBlingen, Germany), Jurgen Schneider (Tuttlingen, Germany), Andreas Kammerer (Triberg, Germany) and Thomas-Erwin Kahler (Seitingen-Oberflacht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery device for a medical instrument for supplying electric energy to instrument-internal electric equipment, preferably an electric motor, having: an electronic controller which is integrally formed with the battery for actuating the entire instrument-inte...