US Patent Issued to AMO DEVELOPMENT on June 30 for "Automatic patient positioning within a laser eye surgery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,490, issued on June 30, was assigned to AMO DEVELOPMENT LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automatic patient positioning within a laser eye surgery system" was invented by Javier G. Gonzalez (Palo Alto, Calif.), David A. Dewey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Noah Bareket (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael A. Campos (Fremont, Calif.), Yu-tai Ray Chen (Union City, Calif.) and David D. Scott (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser eye surgery system produces a treatment beam that includes a plurality of laser pulses. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) subsystem produces a source beam used to locate one or more structures of an eye. The OCT subsyst...