US Patent Issued to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems on Feb. 17 for "Device for treating eye tissue by means of a pulsed laser beam" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,377, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG (Port, Switzerland).

"Device for treating eye tissue by means of a pulsed laser beam" was invented by Christian Rathjen (Bremen, Germany) and Michael Steinlechner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological device comprises a laser source, an application head having focusing optics and a patient interface, a scanner system and circuit. The circuit is configured to control the scanner system to incise an incision surface, which is symmetrical with respect to the central axis of the patient interface, in the eye tissue, a pulsed laser beam being steered...