ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,136, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Medical instrument" was invented by Christian Stark (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Gilles Roland Waeldin (Pulau Penang, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument includes two pivotally coupled branches. Each branch has a handling portion and a jaw portion. The jaw portions form a mouth which is movable between a closed state, in which the jaw portions are moved inwardly, and an open state, in which the jaw portions are moved outwardly. At least one branch includes a branch member and jaw member. The branch member includes one of the handling por...