ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,932, issued on March 11, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Cartridge and injector with the cartridge" was invented by Niklas Damm (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a first opening, a second opening, a channel, an intraocular lens arranged in the channel, and a cartridge plunger arranged in the channel and configured to firstly preload the intraocular lens by moving the cartridge plunger towards the first opening, then to fold the lens by moving it in the tapered region, and finally to push the lens out of the channel via the first opening. The cartridge is configured to be coupled to a...