US Patent Issued to Alcon on Sept. 1 for "Vitreous floater characterization using aberrometry" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,516, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Vitreous floater characterization using aberrometry" was invented by Paul R. Hallen (Colleyville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments include, by a computing device, receiving one or more wavefront elevation maps for a patient's eye and identifying one or more attributes of the one or more wavefront elevation maps corresponding to vitreous floaters. The one or more attributes may include localized spatial variation of the one or more wavefront elevation maps; temporal variation among a plurality of wavefront elevation maps; and depth ...