US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 7 for "Real-time surgical reference indicium apparatus and methods for intraocular lens implantation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,934, issued on July 7, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Real-time surgical reference indicium apparatus and methods for intraocular lens implantation" was invented by Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for performing intraocular lens implantation using real-time surgical reference indicium are disclosed. An example method includes recording a patient specific pre-operative still image of an eye prior to cyclorotation of the eye when a patient lies down for surgery and generating at least one real-time multidimensional visualization of at least...