ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,037, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ViaLase Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"System and method for accessing different tissue targets of the eye" was invented by Guy Holland (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Tibor Juhasz (San Clemente, Calif.), Reza Khazaeinezhad (Lake Forest, Calif.), Wesley W. Lummis (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Eric R. Mikula (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Ferenc Raksi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Manu Sharma (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Hadi Srass (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Carlos G. Suarez (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated surgical system for accessing one of a plurality of target volumes of ocular ti...