US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Nov. 25 for "Medical instrument having a ball bearing or sliding bearing as a generator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,383, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical instrument having a ball bearing or sliding bearing as a generator" was invented by Andre Buerk (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Frederick Lenzenhuber (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical, motor-operated or hand-operated or operable instrument includes a number of bearings for supporting a shaft for applying torque to a tool, of which bearings at least two selected or selectable bearings form a bearing pair. A distance sleeve axially spaces apart the bearings of the bearing pair. The instrument includes a component locate...