ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,498, issued on April 14, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Automated image guidance for ophthalmic surgery" was invented by Tobias Jura Rapoport (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic system and computer-implemented method for automatically initializing an image guided surgery are described. The initialization includes monitoring a scene using multiple images captured by a first imaging device. An eye of a user is detected within a first image of the multiple images. In response to detecting the eye of the user, a registration procedure is initiated with the first image and a ...