US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on July 28 for "User selected confidence level for identification of an imminent vacuum surge during phacoemulsification" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,007, issued on July 28, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"User selected confidence level for identification of an imminent vacuum surge during phacoemulsification" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a user interface and a processor. The user interface is configured to receive a user-selected confidence level of measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) for detecting vacuum surge in a phacoemulsification system. The processor is configured to (i) based on the user-selected confidence level, calculate a number of IOP readings needed during...