ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,080, issued on April 1, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Intraocular lens inserter" was invented by Jack R. Auld (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), John C. Huculak (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Matthew Douglas Mccawley (San Clemente, Calif.) and Matthew Braden Flowers (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraocular lens inserter can include a drive device with controllable advance motion. The drive device may include an actuator device and an energy device. The actuator device may include a piston rod that uses the advance motion to push an intraocular lens from a cartridge for insertion into an eye of an anim...