ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,697, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH (Wehrheim, Germany).
"Surgical cleaning device" was invented by Sebastian Vogt (Wehrheim, Germany) and Thomas Kluge (Wehrheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical cleaning device and method of use having a housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted, having a rear end and a front end, a brush head positioned at the front end and arranged outside the housing, to which a plurality of elastically deformable bristles are attached, a pump connected with the drive shaft for pumping a rinsing liquid, a gearbox that is connected with the front end of the drive shaft and ...