US Patent Issued to IRIDEX on Aug. 4 for "Probes having fiber taper and fluid collection channel for ophthalmic laser treatment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,252, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IRIDEX Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Probes having fiber taper and fluid collection channel for ophthalmic laser treatment" was invented by Howard Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and George Marcellino (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment probe for treating an eye of a patient includes an elongate body that defines a handle and a treatment fiber that is housed within the elongate body. The treatment fiber is configured to deliver treatment light energy to the eye. A contact member is disposed on an end of the elongate body. The contact member has a contact surface for positioni...