ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,331, issued on July 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for lens surgery" was invented by Mario Gerlach (Glienicke-Nordbahn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for refractive lens surgery on the human eye, including: a laser device for separating tissue of the eye lens and capsular bag in a focus of pulsed laser radiation, a focus positioning device for setting and adjusting a location of the focus, a measuring apparatus for gathering the relative position of the eye lens and capsular bag, and a control device which reads data from the measuring apparatus and controls the ...