US Patent Issued to Alcon on June 2 for "Treating eye conditions with subthreshold femtosecond laser pulses" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,700, issued on June 2, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Treating eye conditions with subthreshold femtosecond laser pulses" 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 laser surgical system for treating a target tissue in an eye includes a target detection system and a laser device. The target tissue has an optical breakdown threshold. The target detection system directs detection beams along a detection beam path towards the target tissue in a vitreous of the eye, and determines a location of the target tissue within the vitreous. The laser d...