ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,489, issued on June 30.

"Modular laser therapeutic device" was invented by Vita Dolzan (Litija, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a modular Modular Laser Therapy Device (MLTD) to be used by ophthalmologists for eye surgery that integrates three most frequently used therapeutic devices into a single, compact unit enabling the treatment with capsulotomy, vitreolysis and iridotomy, with selective laser trabeculoplasty and with photocoagulation. While providing such modular laser device a method is provided for optomechanically coupling different ophthalmic modules into the single unit using two laser sourc...