ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,843, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Heat tunable intraocular lens" was invented by Ahmad Hadba (Fort Worth, Texas), Ramiro Ribeiro (Arlington, Mass.), Douglas Schlueter (Azle, Texas), Marcel Ackermann (Enschede, Netherlands), Lukas Scheibler (Telluride, Colo.) and Stefan Troller (Sissach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensiti...