ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,517, issued on March 3, was assigned to Belvin Vision Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).

"Avoiding blood vessels during direct selective laser trabeculoplasty" was invented by Zachary Sacks (Modiin, Israel), Daria Lemann-Blumenthal (Bitzaron, Israel), Daniel Elkayam (Rehovot, Israel), Masha Dobkin-Bekman (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Yoram Solberg (Herzliya, Israel), Eli Makdasi (Rehovot, Israel) and Sergey Volfson (Nes Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (20) comprises a radiation source (48) and a controller (44). The controller is configured to designate multiple target regions (84) on an eye (25) of a patient (22) for irradiation...