US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec, Carl Zeiss on May 13 for "Combination device for tonometrical measuring and drug application on an eye" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,661, issued on May 13, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. (Dublin, Calif.) and Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Combination device for tonometrical measuring and drug application on an eye" was invented by Rudolf Murai Von Bunau (Jena, Germany), Johannes Kindt (Weimar, Germany), Martin Hacker (Jena, Germany), Tobias Buhren (Ulm, Germany), Thomas K. Fitzmorris (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daniel Bublitz (Rausdorf, Germany), Steffen Wagner (Jena, Germany) and Wibke Hellmich (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed combination device combines any tonometric metrology with a drug application to administer glaucoma med...