US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on July 29 for "Optical instrument and method for producing an optical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,786, issued on July 29, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Optical instrument and method for producing an optical device" was invented by Christian Huber (Tuttlingen, Germany), Dieter Huls (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Mario Sterk (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical instrument for viewing living things for medical purposes comprises an instrument body (20, 30, 40, 50, 60), wherein the instrument body (20, 30, 40, 50, 60) accommodates at least one optical element (21, 31, 41, 51, 61) for receiving light from a region outside the instrument body (20, 30, 40, 50, 60) and at least one il...