ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,359, issued on April 29, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Eye surgery surgical system and computer implemented method for providing the position of at least one trocar point" was invented by Christian Voigt (Abtsgmuend, Germany), Delbert Peter Andrews (Oberkochen, Germany), Nancy Hecker-Denschlag (Ulm, Germany), Holger Matz (Unterschneidheim, Germany) and Christoph Hauger (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye surgery surgical system includes a visualization device for visualizing the position of at least one trocar point for a trocar on the sclera of a patient's eye. The trocar serves to introduc...