US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Aug. 26 for "Surgical instrument, steering gear thereof, and method of regulating the position of a steering ring of the steering gear" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,744, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Surgical instrument, steering gear thereof, and method of regulating the position of a steering ring of the steering gear" was invented by Jochen Stefan (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment provides a steering gear (13) for a surgical instrument (1), which can be arranged at the proximal end (3) of a shaft (2) that defines a longitudinal axis (B) and has a bending mechanism (9) at the distal end (5). The steering gear (13) has two controllable and adjustable motorised drives and is designed to transfer the adj...