US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on March 25 for "Injector assembly for inserting an intraocular lens" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,146, issued on March 25, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Injector assembly for inserting an intraocular lens" was invented by Thorben Badur (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmosurgical injector includes a cannula, a barrel, an outer plunger mounted in the barrel and together with the barrel delimiting a barrel cavity arranged in the barrel, and into which an intraocular lens can be introduced, and an inner plunger mounted in the outer plunger and together with the outer plunger delimiting an outer plunger cavity arranged in the outer plunger and into which a liquid can be introduce...