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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2022
Aesculap Ag, Tuttlingen, DE;
Roland-Alois Hoegerle, Tuttlingen, DE;
Frederick Lenzenhuber, Tuttlingen, DE;
Ralf Pfister, Trossingen, DE;
André Buerk, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A medical manual instrument has an instrument body with at least one effector portion, at least one gripping portion and an RFID tag. The RFID tag is preferably a glass/ceramic tag housed in the instrument body in a recessed manner. A cut-out or an open section is formed in the instrument body in a region which is substantially force-free when actuating the manual instrument in an operation, in which cut-out or open section a separate recessed tag holder is housed. The holder fills the cut-out or the open section so as to be adapted to the shape of the manual instrument. The medical manual instrument can be part of a system that includes the medical manual instrument and a reader that can be coupled to the RFID tag for signal transmission.