ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,633, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Intraocular lens injector" was invented by Douglas Brent Wensrich (Bedford, Texas), Todd Taber (Fort Worth, Texas), Len Takudzwa Magara (Pretoria, South Africa) and Jian Liu (Keller, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraocular lens (IOL) injectors and associated methods are described. The IOL injectors may include a collapsible portion configured to reduce the length of the IOL injector when the collapsible portion is altered from an uncollapsed configuration to a collapsed configuration. In some instances, an IOL may be advanced from a storage locat...