US Patent Issued to ALCON on May 26 for "Intelligent corneal procedure advisor" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,189, issued on May 26, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Intelligent corneal procedure advisor" was invented by Mark Lobanoff (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of treatment recommendations for topographic-based excimer laser surgical procedures is described that includes generating accurate cylinder compensation and spherical compensation values that are adjusted to compensate for unique characteristics of topographic-based excimer laser surgical systems. Generating treatment recommendations generally includes determining a topographic vector, a posterior astigmatism vector and an anterior...