ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,950, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Medical instrument" was invented by Erik Walberg (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Patrick Heizmann (Huefingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument with a distal and a proximal end. A first tool element and a second tool element are arranged or formed on the distal end so as to be movable relative to one another. The tool elements define a tool element direction of extent from proximal to distal. The first tool element defines a first tool element face and the second tool element defines a second tool element face. The first tool element face ...