ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,561, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Bioniko Consulting LLC (Sunny Isles, Fla.).
"Suspending the eye in a model for surgical simulation" was invented by Andres Bernal (Sunny Isles, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye model for simulating surgery has an eyeball portion suspended within a frame. The suspension has a flexible material connected to the eyeball and the frame which flexes when the eyeball is pushed during a surgical simulation, so that the eyeball can be moved within a range of motion corresponding to the range of motion of the natural eye, and also so that when the force is applied to the eyeball the eyeball res...