ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,961, issued on May 20, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Instrument pre-product and medical instrument" was invented by Tom Schweitzer (Tuttlingen, Germany), Corvin Motz (Pfullendorf, Germany) and Andreas Deutschendorf (Spaichingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument and a semi-finished instrument. The semi-finished instrument includes an instrument body part blank for forming an instrument body part of the medical instrument. The instrument body part blank is made of a metal, in particular an instrument steel. The semi-finished instrument also includes a distal end region and a recess on th...