ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,160, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Method and apparatus for subretinal injection" was invented by Niels Alexander Abt (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Reto Gruebler (Greifensee, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an apparatus is provided for performing a subretinal injection into a subretinal space between a retina and a retinal pigment epithelium of an eye. The apparatus includes an injection needle having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end configured to be insertable into the subretinal space at a position on a surface of the retina. The apparatus inc...