ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,956, issued on July 7, was assigned to AMO DEVELOPMENT LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for irradiating an artificial lens" was invented by Martin Schraub (Alsbach-Haehnlein, Germany), Lars Dobelmann-Mara (Gross-Zimmern, Germany), Simon Helmstetter (Gross-Umstadt, Germany), David Moore (Weinheim, Germany), Stefan Riedmueller (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany) and Harald Guenther (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to a system for two-photon or multi-photon irradiating an artificial lens, preferably an intraocular lens preferably arranged within an eye of a patient and a method f...