ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,930, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical instrument and surgical instrument system" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany) and Lilli Stoffels (Calw, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for use in a knee joint replacement operation having a first fastening device, a second fastening device, a guiding device connected at one end to the first fastening device and at the other end to the second fastening device and by which the second fastening device is pivotably movable in a manner guided relative to the first fastening device in a sagitta...