ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,506, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Optimized pneumatic drive lines" was invented by Brian William McDonell (Irvine, Calif.) and Filip Finodeyev (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one exemplary aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a system. The system includes a pneumatic surgical instrument and a surgical console operable to provide compressed gas to the pneumatic surgical instrument. Additionally, the system includes a pneumatic drive line coupling the pneumatic surgical instrument to the surgical console. The pneumatic drive line has an internal bore configure...