US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Feb. 3 for "Medical handling device and method for controlling a handling device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,197, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical handling device and method for controlling a handling device" was invented by Stephan Schrader (Tuttlingen, Germany), Benedikt Koehler (Tuttlingen, Germany), Chang-Hae Kim (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Marco Schulze (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical handling device comprises an instrument holder for holding an observation instrument that is equipped with an image capturing unit for capturing an image section of an object plane. The handling device further comprises a robotic handling unit that supports the instrument h...