US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Nov. 18 for "Method for producing a surgical instrument for grasping and/or holding and/or guiding a needle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,572, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for producing a surgical instrument for grasping and/or holding and/or guiding a needle" 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 method for producing a surgical instrument for grasping and/or holding and/or guiding a needle includes: a) producing a first arm part and a second arm part, each having a distal holding jaw with a recess and a solder deposit region; b) inserting hard metal inserts into the recesses in the distal h...