US Patent Issued to Elios Vision on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for a combined excimer laser and phacoemulsification unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,069, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Elios Vision Inc. (Bridgewater, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for a combined excimer laser and phacoemulsification unit" was invented by Johannes Junger (Gilching, Germany) and Markus Enders (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for treating an eye includes a housing, an excimer laser source within the housing, an ultrasound generator within the housing, an irrigation source within the housing, and an aspiration source within the housing."

The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 2022, under Application No. 17/899,330.

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