US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on May 26 for "Surgical system priming with pressure calibration utilizing handpiece orientation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,187, issued on May 26, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Surgical system priming with pressure calibration utilizing handpiece orientation" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification system and a method are described. The system including: a handpiece having a needle and a sleeve at a distal end and an orientation detection unit; an irrigation module configured to supply irrigation fluid into the eye; an aspiration module configured for aspiring eye fluid; a priming cover for fitting over the distal end of the...