US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on March 3 for "Phacoemulsification irrigation apparatus with load cell and optical sensor" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,671, issued on March 3, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Phacoemulsification irrigation apparatus with load cell and optical sensor" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel) and Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an enclosure, an irrigation retainer, one or more sensors, and a processor. The irrigation retainer is coupled with the enclosure and configured to accept an irrigation container holding irrigation fluid f...