ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,425, issued on April 15, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical instrument and locking device thereof" was invented by Dominik Langle (Tuttlingen, Germany), Janosz Schneider (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Jochen Stefan (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device arranged in an actuation unit of a surgical instrument which has a hollow shaft with the actuation unit arranged at a proximal end of the shaft and having a tool at the distal end of the shaft which can be actuated by an instrument insert which can be movably stored axially in the direction of a main instrument axis (A) in t...