US Patent Issued to Lhotse Medical on Oct. 20 for "Thermal systems and methods for crystalline lens removal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,032, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lhotse Medical Inc. (San Francisco).

"Thermal systems and methods for crystalline lens removal" was invented by Anand Doraiswamy (Oakland, Calif.), Andrew Schieber (Tustin, Calif.) and Matthew Flowers (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to thermal emulsification systems and methods for cataract removal. The thermal emulsification systems can apply heat to the crystalline lens of the eye, resulting in the emulsification of the crystalline lens. The emulsified crystalline lens can be aspirated from the capsular bag of the eye. The thermal emulsification s...