ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,447, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Ophthalmic surgical systems, methods, and devices" was invented by Jeffrey David Brennan (Los Angeles) and Mark Humayun (Glendale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein provides ophthalmic surgical systems, methods, and devices. In one embodiment, a surgical apparatus for use by a surgeon during a surgical procedure comprises one or more sealed sterilized surgical packs configured to be disposed of after a single or a limited number of surgical procedures, the one or more sealed sterilized surgical packs comprising: a sterile surgical i...