US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Oct. 20 for "Phacoemulsification vacuum surge detection with correlated vacuum and pressure readings" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,237, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Phacoemulsification vacuum surge detection with correlated vacuum and pressure readings" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Eran Haas (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes calculating in real-time a correlation between vacuum readings and pressure readings of respective aspiration and irrigation channels of a phacoemulsification handpiece engaged in a phacoemulsification procedure in an eye. Upon detecting an increase in the vacuum readings and an increase in the press...