ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,810, issued on March 31, was assigned to Heidelberg Engineering GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).
"Arrangement and method for determining eye lengths" was invented by Bjorn Martensen (Lubeck, Germany), Michaela Gaens (Dossenheim, Germany) and Andreas Fritz-Bouteleux (Lubeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In view of the problem of specifying an arrangement and a method by means of which an eye can be measured preferably without artifacts and quickly, an arrangement for measuring an eye (1), comprising a light source (2) which is suitable for emitting light rays (3, 4) to the cornea (5) of an eye (1) and a control unit (6) which dr...