US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Aug. 4 for "Irrigation in a phacoemulsification system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,249, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Irrigation in a phacoemulsification system" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel), Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel) and Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a phacoemulsification system includes a phacoemulsification probe including a distal end comprising a needle, and a piezoelectric crystal configured to vibrate the needle so as to emulsify a lens of an eye, an irrigation reservoir configured to store irrigation fluid, an irrigation line extending from the i...