US Patent Issued to AMO DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 24 for "Methods and systems for laser ophthalmic surgery that provide for iris exposures below a predetermined exposure limit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,260, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMO DEVELOPMENT LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for laser ophthalmic surgery that provide for iris exposures below a predetermined exposure limit" was invented by Georg Schuele (Portola Valley, Calif.), David A. Dewey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Javier G. Gonzalez (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alexander Vankov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser surgical method for performing a corneal incision while maintaining iris exposure below a predetermined exposure limit includes: determining an initial iris exposure based on an initial treatment scan, determining whether the ini...