ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,967, issued on March 17, was assigned to EYEVENSYS (Paris).

"Needle insertion device for the electroporation of a product into an eye" was invented by Jean-Denis Laffitte (Etampes, France), Francine Behar-Cohen (Paris), Christophe Moureaux (Besancon, France), Francois Cabaud (Ecole Valentin, France), Jerome Joseph Schafer (Liberty Township, Ohio), Travis Michael Craft (Loveland, Ohio), Benjamin Lee Ko (Cincinnati), Jacob William Schubert (Bellevue, Ky.) and Michael D. Auld (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a support (4) comprising a support base defining a spherical base contact surface, extending alon...