ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,852, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hoya Medical Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Intraocular lens injector" was invented by Yoshitaka Watanabe (Tokyo) and Xiaoxiao Zhang (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an intraocular lens injector for injecting an intraocular lens into an eye, including: an injector main body 5; an injection tube 7 attached to a tip part of the injector main body 5 and having a nozzle portion 7b; and an attachment member 16 having a protruding surface disposed in a state of protruding to outside from an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle portion 7b, wherein the attachment ...