ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,227, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Plunger for an injector, and injector" was invented by Hadi Moein (Oberkochen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plunger for an injector to inject an intraocular lens into the capsular bag of an eye has a deformable cushion and a contact surface with a cutout in which an imaginary reference point is arranged. The plunger has two points groups, each having a design point arranged on an outer contour, an inner contour point arranged on an inner contour, and a reference point. For each of the point groups, the distance from the design point to a circl...