ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,519, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Avoiding vortices during phacoemulsification" was invented by Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a medical probe, the method including driving a tip of the medical probe to cause rotation of the tip (i) in a clockwise trajectory in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis during first time intervals, and (ii) in a counterclockwise trajectory in the plane during second time intervals that are interleaved with the first time intervals."
The patent was filed on April 25, 2022, und...