ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,039, issued on May 19, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Visualization system with stereo-volumetric intraoperative OCT and stereoscopic camera" was invented by Steven T. Charles (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visualization system includes a housing assembly having a head unit configured to be at least partially directed towards a target site. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) module and a stereoscopic camera are located in the housing assembly. A controller is in communication with the OCT module and the stereoscopic camera. The controller is adapted to acquire left OCT data and right OCT data...