US Patent Issued to Alcon on March 3 for "Probe for laser ablation, illumination, and viscoelastic injection" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,516, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Probe for laser ablation, illumination, and viscoelastic injection" was invented by Paul R. Hallen (Colleyville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microsurgical instruments having combined illumination, laser ablation, and viscoelastic injection functions. A surgical instrument includes a probe having a main lumen and a port at a distal end thereof. The probe may further include one or more optical fibers within the main lumen, the optical fibers configured to project laser light and illumination light. Laser light may be emitted from the distal end of th...