US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on March 24 for "Determining fluid flow rate in a phacoemulsification probe" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,550, issued on March 24, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Determining fluid flow rate in a phacoemulsification probe" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for determining a fluid flow rate in a channel of a phacoemulsification probe, including a first pressure sensor, coupled with fluid in the channel at a first position. A second pressure sensor couples with the fluid in the channel at a second position, at a preset distance from the first position, and the fluid flows from the first to the second position. A pr...