ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,890, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Norlase ApS (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Apparatus for photothermal ophthalmic treatment" was invented by Peter Skovgaard (Birkerod, Denmark) and Greg Fava (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for photothermal ophthalmic treatment, in particular photocoagulation or photo-thermal stimulation, the apparatus comprising a diagnostic instrument and an adapter unit, the diagnostic instrument being configured to emit illumination light from an illumination output along a free-air illumination output path towards a target area, to receive light from the target area along a free-ai...