US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on June 23 for "UV-laser-based system for correcting impaired vision, and method for centering same" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,265, issued on June 23, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"UV-laser-based system for correcting impaired vision, and method for centering same" was invented by Hartmut Vogelsang (Oberweser, Germany), Christian Deutsch (Weimar, Germany), Ingo Wundrich (Weimar, Germany) and Dan Zoltan Reinstein (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV-laser-based system (UVL-LVC system) for correcting the impaired vision of a patient's eye has a UV-laser source, which emits laser radiation to treat the patient's eye, and imaging optics for focusing the laser radiation onto the cornea of the patient's eye. The imaging optics allo...