ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,262, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Visualization of vitreous floaters in the eye" was invented by Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic surgical system for viewing an eye includes an ophthalmic microscope and a laser device. The ophthalmic microscope receives light reflected or scattered backwards from within the vitreous of the eye in order to provide an image of an object within the vitreous. The ophthalmic microscope includes a slit illumination source (which includes a light source and an optical element), a spectral filter, a...