US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Feb. 10 for "Method for operating a fluid pump, and ophthalmic surgical system with same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,260, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Method for operating a fluid pump, and ophthalmic surgical system with same" was invented by Christoph Kuebler (Oberkochen, Germany) and Susanne Kohlhammer (Blaustein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge for a panel of an ophthalmic surgical system for treating an eye is configured for insertion in a cartridge accommodation region of the panel and has at least one fluid pump for conveying a treatment fluid, the fluid pump has a pump chamber and a drive chamber separated from the pump chamber with a partition element that is at least regiona...