ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,487, issued on June 30, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system and method of providing custom vacuum and aspiration in a surgical system" was invented by Abraham Hajishah (Irvine, Calif.) and Edith W. Fung (Diamond Bar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system and method for providing a may include at least a phacoemulsification surgical console having a customizable non-linear custom aspiration mode. The console may include at least an aspirator; a foot pedal; and a non-transitory computing code resident on a computing memory associated with a computing processor...