ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,632, issued on May 5, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Gripper system for an ophthalmic lens" was invented by Felix Brinckmann (RoBdorf, Germany), Michel Muhlig (Schaafheim, Germany), Johannes Neumann (Obernburg am Main, Germany), Nils Schweizer (Bad Konig, Germany) and Roger Biel (Aschaffenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper system comprises: a gripper shaft; a vacuum source; a first valve arranged between the vacuum source and the suction tube; a liquid reservoir; a source of pressurized gas; a second valve arranged between the source of pressurized gas and the suction tube or the liquid reservo...