US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on May 19 for "Multi-channel piezoelectric resonant system" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,279, issued on May 19, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Multi-channel piezoelectric resonant system" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.) and Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification system includes a phacoemulsification probe and one or more signal generators. The phacoemulsification probe includes (i) a piezoelectric actuator, (ii) a segmented electrode, including multiple electrode segments attached to respective angular sections of a face of the piezoelectr...