US Patent Issued to Centricity Vision on Aug. 19 for "Hydrodissection and posterior capsule opacification prevention during capsulotomy procedure" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,366, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Centricity Vision Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Hydrodissection and posterior capsule opacification prevention during capsulotomy procedure" was invented by Christopher Guild Keller (El Cerrito, Calif.), Thomas Haynes McGaffigan (Saratoga, Calif.), Kevin L. Waltz (Indianapolis) and Thomas Milton McNicholas (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide hydrodissection and/or PCO prevention or reduction in a patient undergoing eye surgery. In one embodiment, the invention is a surgical device for cutting and excising a portion of tissue, for example in per...