US Patent Issued to Alcon on June 3 for "Retina massage and smoothing device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,343, issued on June 3, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Retina massage and smoothing device" was invented by Niccolo Maschio (Winterthur, Switzerland), Reto Grueebler (Greifensee, Switzerland) and Timo Jung (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments disclosed herein provide a retina massage and smoothing device. In certain embodiments, the device comprises a tip configured to be used for manipulating a surface of a retina inside an eye, and a shaft coupled to the tip, the shaft having a proximal end configured to be coupled to a handle, wherein the shaft is further configured to ...