ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,145, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hoya Medical Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Intraocular lens injector with container" was invented by Kazunori Kudo (Saku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an intraocular ring injector which allows an operator to stably and normally house the intraocular ring in the intraocular ring injector, which is an intraocular ring injector 20 with a container configured so that an intraocular ring injector 10 is housed in a container 4, for injecting an intraocular ring C into an eye for retaining a shape of a lens capsule, the intraocular ring injector comprising: a hollow bod...