ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,515, issued on March 3, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Docking an eye for ophthalmic laser treatment" was invented by Johannes Lorner (RoBtal, Germany), Peter Riedel (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Schmid (Neuendettelsau, Germany) and Andreas Vetter (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic laser surgical system for treating an eye includes a laser device, one or more cameras, and a computer. The eye has anatomical features, including the cornea with the anterior corneal surface. The laser device directs a laser beam towards the eye. A camera generates images of the anatomical features, includ...