ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,689, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Apparatus for the registration of surgical instruments" was invented by Frederick Lenzenhuber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Roland-Alois Hoegerle (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Matthias Schweizer (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can detect surgical instruments provided with RFID transponders. The apparatus has a receiving space delimited by a bottom and side walls. A surgical instrument can be introduced into the receiving space through an upper side of the receiving space. The receiving space is shielded from external electromagnetic waves ...