US Patent Issued to EYE-PCR on Sept. 30 for "Devices for reconstruction of a lens capsule after cataract surgery" (Greek, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,012, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to EYE-PCR B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Devices for reconstruction of a lens capsule after cataract surgery" was invented by Ioannis Pallikaris (Maleviziou, Greece), Onurcan Sahin (Istanbul) and Harilaos Ginis (Megara, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are devices used to reconstruct a natural lens capsule after a cataract surgery. The device has a ring-shaped rigid component, a ring-shaped flexible component and a groove disposed on an inner surface of the rigid component. The rigid component has a distal end attached to the ring-shaped flexible component and a proximal end that lies ...