US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Jan. 20 for "UV-laser-based system for refractive error correction, and contact interface" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,692, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"UV-laser-based system for refractive error correction, and contact interface" was invented by Hartmut Vogelsang (Oberweser, Germany), Dan Z. Reinstein (London), Wolfgang Kern (Grossostheim, Germany), Christian Deutsch (Weimar, Germany) and Claus Goder (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet laser-based (UVL) laser vision correction (LVC) system, a contact interface and a contact interface system for such a UVL-LVC system. The invention facilitates a coupling and affixation between the patient's eye and the UVL-LVC system by appli...