ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 2 -- Alcon Research, Fort Worth, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,814,854) developed by Guangyao Jia, Irvine, California, and Glenn R. Sussman, Laguna Niguel, California, for a "capsulotomy repair device and method for capsulotomy repair."

The patent application was filed on April 5, 2010 (12/754,119). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm . . .