US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Oct. 7 for "Modular instrument system for use in a knee joint replacement operation" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,770, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Modular instrument system for use in a knee joint replacement operation" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany), Housseyn Zouaghi (Chaumont, France) and Jana Bork (Radolfzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular instrument system for use in a knee joint replacement operation includes a tibial component, a first femoral component, a second femoral component and at least one spacer element. The different components of the modular instrument system are releasably connectable to one another to form different instrument confi...