US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on June 2 for "System and methods for a cassette capture mechanism for phacoemulsification surgical applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,696, issued on June 2, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and methods for a cassette capture mechanism for phacoemulsification surgical applications" was invented by Tammo Heeren (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), John C. Dunne Jr. (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Matthew Flowers (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting and/or capturing a cassette is disclosed. The cassette capture mechanism may be used with a surgical console of a surgical system, wherein the system has a cassette receiving area having at least two alignment sensors and a plurality of capture plun...