ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,411, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BELKIN VISION LTD. (Yavne, Israel).
"Selective laser stimulation of corneal stem cells" was invented by Michael Belkin (Givat Shmu'el, Israel) and Zachary Sacks (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (20) for ophthalmic treatment includes an optical unit (30), which includes a camera (54), which is configured to capture an image of an eye (25) of a patient, a laser (48), which is configured to emit pulses of laser radiation, and beam conditioning and scanning optics (49, 50), which are configured to focus and direct the laser radiation to impinge on an anterior surface of th...