ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,261, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Managing phacoemulsification user defined protocols" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel), Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.) and Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye surgery system includes an Input/Output (I/O) device and a processor. The I/O device is configured to enable a user to define one or more eye surgery protocols, and further configured to, using t...