US Patent Issued to Alcon on Dec. 16 for "Packaging-integrated manually actuated intraocular lens cartridge" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,189, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Packaging-integrated manually actuated intraocular lens cartridge" was invented by Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, Texas), Todd Taber (Keller, Texas), Douglas Brent Wensrich (Bedford, Texas), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, Texas), Trevor Haney (Jenison, Mich.), Andrew Check (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Justin Benacquisto (New Baltimore, Mich.), Joe Marietta (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jonathan Penrod (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Tim LaRoy (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Bryce Porter (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing and/or shipping an intraocu...