ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,783, issued on May 13, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Phacoemulsifation guidance" was invented by Yael Buchnik (Adi, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification system having an imaging device configured to capture images of an eye and a phacoemulsification probe, a display, and a processor configured to receive an eye scan result providing a two-dimensional array of cataract thicknesses of the eye, find cutlines through which to cut the cataract into sections responsively to the two-dimensional array of cataract thicknesses, and render the im...