US Patent Issued to ALCON on April 7 for "Long-term monitoring of the incision performance of an ophthalmic laser surgical system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,189, issued on April 7, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Long-term monitoring of the incision performance of an ophthalmic laser surgical system" was invented by Matthias Fosel (Memmelsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic surgical system for monitoring incision performance includes a laser device, a camera, and a computer. laser device delivers a laser beam with a laser setting energy towards a target to create optical breakdowns in the target. The camera generates images of the optical breakdowns in the target. The computer instructs the laser device to create the optical breakdowns in the t...