US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on June 16 for "Packaging assembly having an injector for inserting an intraocular lens into the capsular bag of an eye" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,666, issued on June 16, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Packaging assembly having an injector for inserting an intraocular lens into the capsular bag of an eye" was invented by Hadi Moein (Oberkochen, Germany), Annett Ortscheid (Oberkochen, Germany) and Martin Kelp (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging assembly includes packaging and an injector for introducing an intraocular lens into the capsular sac of an eye. The injector includes: a housing having an opening for ejecting the lens in an insertion direction, a proximal end opposite the opening, and a plunger longitudinally movable ...