ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,226, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Eye-surgical treatment apparatus" was invented by Frank Bruckner (Jena, Germany), Wolf Weimer (Jena, Germany), Andreas Weyhausen (Jena, Germany), Ralf Labouvie (Jena, Germany) and Gregor Stobrawa (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planning device for generating control data for a treatment apparatus which produces at least one cut surface in the cornea by operation of a laser device, and to a treatment apparatus including a planning device of the specified type. Also, a method for generating control data for such a treatment apparatus, and a ...