US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Feb. 10 for "Operating a vitrector in a partially-closed pneumatic loop" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,261, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Operating a vitrector in a partially-closed pneumatic loop" was invented by Sergey Sobol (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel), Elad Avraham Diukman (Haifa, Israel), Alexander Shechtman (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a compressor, which is configured to compress air and includes an input port and an output port, an output conduit coupled with the output port and configured to receive the air from the compressor, an input conduit coupled with the input port...