US Patent Issued to Alcon on June 24 for "Methods and systems for maximizing ophthalmic medical device uptime via predictive health monitoring and proactive preventative maintenance" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,900, issued on June 24, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for maximizing ophthalmic medical device uptime via predictive health monitoring and proactive preventative maintenance" was invented by Nancy Aluy (Irvine, Calif.), John Alfred Campin (Southlake, Texas), Brian George Green (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Mark Andrew Zielke (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for predicting a likelihood of future failure of components in an ophthalmic medical device and performing preventative maintenance on the ophthalmic medical de...