ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,671, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMO DEVELOPMENT LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Calibration process for femtosecond laser intraocular lens modification system using video and OCT targeting" was invented by Alexander Vankov (Mountain View, Calif.), Jenny Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), David A. Dewey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Phillip Gooding (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Hofer (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Georg Schuele (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The XYZ beam position of an ophthalmic laser system is calibrated by measuring a fluorescent signal induced by the focused laser beam in a thin glass coverslip via multiphot...