US Patent Issued to Lensar on Sept. 9 for "Patient interface devices and methods and systems for combined sonic and laser applications" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,068, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lensar Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Patient interface devices and methods and systems for combined sonic and laser applications" was invented by E. Valaski Teuma (Orlando, Fla.), George Curatu (Orlando, Fla.), Gary P. Gray (Orlando, Fla.), John McWhirter (Winter Park, Fla.), Arthur Newton (Orlando, Fla.), Scott Anderson (Winter Garden, Fla.), Alan Connaughton (Orlando, Fla.), Dustin Morley (Rockledge, Fla.) and Dale McPherson (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface device (PID) for contacting the surface of the eye and having a meniscus inverter. A pin, clip and ridge confi...