US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Jan. 27 for "Surgical HF device and method for identifying and operating surgical HF instruments" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,212, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Surgical HF device and method for identifying and operating surgical HF instruments" was invented by Sven Axel Gruner (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical HF device (4) and method identify and operate surgical HF instruments (1, 1'). The surgical HF device includes a surgical HF instrument and an HF generator (3) which has a HF socket (32) for connecting the HF instrument. A RFID reading unit (33) is assigned to the HF socket. The HF instrument has a RFID transponder tag (15, 15). The HF device has a HF cable (2, 2') with ...