ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,467, issued on May 19, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Method for operating a fluid pump, and ophthalmosurgical system with same" was invented by Alexander Schenk (Frankehardt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a fluid pump of an ophthalmosurgical system for conveying a treatment fluid is provided. The fluid pump has a pump chamber and a drive chamber separated from the latter with an elastic partition element and which is acted upon by a drive fluid. A position of the partition element is detected. The method includes subjecting the drive fluid to a first drive pressure, detecting a...