ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,701, issued on June 2, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"System, contact device, and method for producing a contact device" was invented by Dirk Preuss (Jena, Germany) and Andreas Wirth (Simbach am Inn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including: a contact element for fixing the relative geometric position and orientation of a patient's eye with respect to a laser applicator and a lens element for insertion into the contact element. The contact element receives the lens element at a predetermined position. The lens element has an eye surface and the lens element has a projection element that engage...