ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,342, issued on Feb. 18.
"Corneal cutter and method of use" was invented by Alexander Ilich Movshovich (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical knife for adjusting size and shape of an intracorneal channel during a keratopigmentation procedure to better match the geometry of the patient's iris and for delivering color pigments into the intracorneal channel. The surgical knife includes a handle, a shaft section, an arcuate section and a kidney-shaped appendage that is coupled to the proximal end of the arcuate section. The kidney-shaped appendage includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a non-cutting sidewall, a cutting sid...