ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,614, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical instrument" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany) and Svenja Anhorn (Heroldstatt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument and system for use in a knee joint replacement operation. The instrument has a main body fastenable to a tibial cutting block. A first stylus and second stylus are each mounted on and movable relative to the main body, and are elongate between a first end and a second end. The first ends each have a reference surface for contacting a tibial plateau of the tibia. A compensation elemen...