ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,035, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Surgical system priming with pressure calibration" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification system and a corresponding method are described. The system having a handpiece having a needle and a sleeve at a distal end to emulsify a lens of an eye; 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 di...