ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,681, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Device and method for determining a switch-off time of a medical instrument" was invented by Christian Huber (Muehlheim, Germany), Christoph Rothweiler (Donaueschingen, Germany), Detlef Russ (Renningen, Germany), Oliver Fugger (Ulm, Germany) and Raimund Hibst (Erbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a switch-off time of a medical instrument includes measuring the duration for which the temperature of a tissue is above 85deg Celsius, preferably above 95deg Celsius, calculating, preferably online, the mean temperature from the ...