US Patent Issued to Vista Ophthalmics on Aug. 11 for "Vitrector and method for performing a one-step posterior vitrectomy using the same" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,591, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Vista Ophthalmics LLC (Katy, Texas).

"Vitrector and method for performing a one-step posterior vitrectomy using the same" was invented by Jeffrey Whitsett (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vitrector for removing material from an eye includes a hand piece, a shaft coupled at a first end to a first end of the hand piece, the shaft having a sharp second end opposite the first end of the shaft, and a cutting device positioned within the shaft and configured for removing the material from the eye. The sharp second end of the shaft is configured for piercing a pars plana of the eye and a scle...