US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on April 29 for "Reducing irrigation/aspiration valve response time in a phacoemulsification system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,360, issued on April 29, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Reducing irrigation/aspiration valve response time in a phacoemulsification system" was invented by Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel) and Stanislav Katzir (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification apparatus includes a phacoemulsification probe, an electromechanical valve, and an electromechanical mechanism. The probe having a fluid channel for exchanging fluid with a patient's eye. The electromechanical valve is couple...