US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on March 17 for "Verification of phacoemulsification tip type using image processing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,812, issued on March 17, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Verification of phacoemulsification tip type using image processing" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Eran Haas (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating selection of a tip type for a tip of a handpiece of an ophthalmic instrument, the method includes storing a definition of multiple tip types and multiple respective visual properties of the tip types. An image of the tip is acquired by a camera during a medical procedure using the ophthalmic instrument. An actual visual property of the tip i...