US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE on Jan. 27 for "Handheld surgical device and shaft for a handheld surgical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,013, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Handheld surgical device and shaft for a handheld surgical device" was invented by Kevin Schulz (Wilstedt, Germany), Irina Schmuck (Heide, Germany), Bastian Schroeder (Hamburg, Germany) and Andreas Ruehs (Ahrensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft and a handheld surgical device with which an optical unit and an access article may be positioned in a simple and reliable way in the shaft. This is achieved in that at least one web, through which an optical unit is directed from the proximal end of the shaft into a bore of a shaft tip, i...