US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 14 for "Surgical contact lens system with a patient contact lens" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,332, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Surgical contact lens system with a patient contact lens" was invented by Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a surgical contact lens system for ophthalmic treatment with a laser beam includes a patient contact lens and a surgical contact lens. The patient contact lens reduces one or more refractive errors of the eye and has a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface is to be disposed outwardly from a cornea of an eye. The surgical contact lens has an eye end to be disposed outwardly from th...