ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,004, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Fiagon GMBH (Hennigsdorf, Germany).
"Surgical instrument and method for detecting the position of a surgical instrument" was invented by Timo Kruger (Berlin) and Dirk Mucha (Nordbahn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surgical instrument with an instrument handle, an instrument shank connected to the instrument handle, an instrument tip with a work point, which instrument tip is connected to the instrument shank, and a first locator arranged on the instrument handle or the instrument shank. During a use of the surgical instrument, the instrument shank can be defl...