US Patent Issued to AMO Development on Sept. 8 for "Corneal lenticular incision using a femtosecond laser with improved scanline sweep speed profile" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,038, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AMO Development LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Corneal lenticular incision using a femtosecond laser with improved scanline sweep speed profile" was invented by Wenzhi Gao (Union City, Calif.) and Hong Fu (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic surgical laser system and method for forming a lenticule in a subject's eye using "fast-scan-slow-sweep" scanning scheme. A high frequency scanner forms a fast scanline, which is placed tangential to a parallel of latitude of the surface of the lenticule and then moved in a slow sweep trajectory along a meridian of longitude of the surfa...