US Patent Issued to Alcon on Dec. 23 for "Automated identification of aspirated saline solution during vitreoretinal surgery" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,473, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Automated identification of aspirated saline solution during vitreoretinal surgery" was invented by Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Lejla Vajzovic (Durham, N.C.) and Frank Brodie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying saline solution in an aspirated fluid mixture during vitrectomy or another vitreoretinal surgery includes estimating a fluid property value of the mixture via an electronic control unit (ECU). The mixture includes saline solution and either vitreous or silicone oil. The method includes identifying ...