ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,707, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Medical decoupling instrument" was invented by Jian Zoing Tan (Tuttlingen, Germany), Barbara Gnoth (Immendingen, Germany) and Denis Ricci (Wurmlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical decoupling instrument for decoupling a medical insertion instrument from a pedicle screw includes a shaft and a sleeve arranged around a portion of the shaft. The sleeve is configured for defined coupling to the medical insertion instrument. The shaft is rotatable relative to the sleeve, and the medical decoupling instrument is configured to bring the shaft and the...