ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,240, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Anti-vacuum surge module with power and data transmission coils" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide provides a vacuum surge protection system or an Anti-Vacuum Surge (AVS) module and a console-side connector that form an energy (power) and/or data transfer system, which passes the energy and/or data using a magnetic field, via non-contact magnetic induction, between the console-side connector and the AVS module. The AVS module typically p...