US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Sept. 30 for "Phacoemulsification probe stroke length maximization system" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,060, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Phacoemulsification probe stroke length maximization system" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phacoemulsification system including a phacoemulsification probe having a probe body, a horn disposed at least partially in the probe body, a needle coupled with the horn and configured to be inserted into an eye, and a piezoelectric actuator disposed in the probe body and configured to vibrate the horn and the needle in a first direction with a stroke length with respect to the probe body; a signal ...