US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Sept. 16 for "Automatic control of phacoemulsification needle trajectory" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,028, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automatic control of phacoemulsification needle trajectory" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel) and Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that includes inserting a needle of a phacoemulsification handpiece into an eye of a patient and vibrating the needle in a first trajectory. Matter from the eye is aspirated via an aspiration line while the needle is vibrated in the first traject...