Anton Banko


Anton Banko was a Slovenian inventor and engineer who is best known for designing the first phacoemulsifier.
Banko established Surgical Design Corporation in New York in 1968 which produced a variety of successful phacoemulsification machines that are used worldwide.
Banko also develop many other patents used in ocular surgery including instrument for vitrectomy that he patented in 1969 after which a combined Mackool/Heslin Ocusystem machine was designed