US Patent Issued to Alcon on Sept. 8 for "Detecting problems of a laser beam of a laser system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,033, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Detecting problems of a laser beam of a laser system" was invented by Joerg Michael Hurich (Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany), Frank Peter Meinhard (Heroldsberg, Germany) and Annelene Konz (Hollfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic laser system include a laser system, imaging system, and computer. The laser system accesses a planned test pattern of a planned laser spot having a planned beam feature and directs a laser beam towards a test target located at a target plane according to the planned test pattern to yield a...