US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on June 17 for "Medical instrument and associated method" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,409, issued on June 17, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medical instrument and associated method" was invented by Daniel Glenn Doerr (Orlando, Fla.), Roland Strelitzki (Altamonte Springs, Fla.), Gary Wayne Haberland (Winter Park, Fla.) and John A. Farnella (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument includes a handle, a trocar in communication with the handle, and a cannula in communication with the trocar and the handle. The cannula is engaged (locked) with the handle when linearly displaced proximally towards the handle and, the cannula is disengaged (unlocked) from the handle w...