ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,590, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Robotic cataract surgery using focused ultrasound" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Yoav Lamhot (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification apparatus includes an ultrasound transmitter, an irrigation-aspiration tool, a robotic arm, and a processor. The ultrasound transmitter is configured to generate and focus an ultrasound beam into a lens capsule of an eye of a patient, to emulsify a lens of the eye. The irrigation-aspiration tool having a distal end including an outlet of an irrigation c...