ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,325, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Intraocular lens injector" was invented by Kyle Brown (Fort Worth, Texas), Tu Cam Tran (Grapevine, Texas), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, Texas) and Stephen J. Van Noy (Southlake, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye are described. For example, an intraocular lens injector may include a passage formed in a distal end portion of the intraocular lens injector. The passage may define an interior surface, and a ramp may be formed on the interior surface so as to cause a leading haptic of a...