ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,770, issued on June 10, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Compensating for imperfect behavior of multi-piezoelectric crystal" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a probe includes applying respective harmonic electrical signals having respective amplitudes and respective phases to multiple piezoelectric crystals coupled with a tip of the probe so as to cause the tip to vibrate, observing a motion of the tip while applying the respective harmonic electrical signals, adjusting the respective amplitudes and the respective phases of the...