US Patent Issued to Alcon on Oct. 27 for "Ophthalmic surgical cassette" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,488, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Ophthalmic surgical cassette" was invented by Vincent A. Baxter (Temecula, Calif.), Brad Hua Chen (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Satish Yalamanchili (Irvine, Calif.) and Brian William McDonell (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein provide a surgical cassette that functions as an interface between a patient and a surgical console used to perform a variety of different ophthalmic surgeries."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/771,616.

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