U.S. Patent 7674255 was awarded to Tuebingen Scientific Surgical Products, oHG on 2010-03-09 and describes a “Surgical instrument.” This patent has been cited 309 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A surgical instrument comprising an instrument handle linked to a proximal end portion of a tube shaft to the distal end portion of which an instrument head is linked so as to be inclinable, in which instrument head, in turn, an effector including at least one pivotable engaging element is rotatably supported. The instrument handle comprises a number of manipulators and/or operating mechanisms designed for operating the instrument head and/or the effector. One of the manipulators consists of an operating element in the form of a rotary knob with respect to its function, the operating element being rotatably supported on the instrument handle. Link: U.S. Patent 7674255

This patent was originally filed on 2004-04-01 which gives it a processing time of 2168 days, compared to an average processing time of 1909 in the field. Tuebingen Scientific Surgical Products, oHG has 5 total patents. The first named inventor is Marcus Braun of Holzgerlingen, . The assistant examiner was Alex Toy.

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