US Patent Issued to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems on July 28 for "Apparatus for working on eye tissue by means of a pulsed laser beam" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,009, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG (Port, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for working on eye tissue by means of a pulsed laser beam" was invented by Christian Rathjen (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For the purposes of working on eye tissue, an ophthalmological apparatus comprises a laser source that is configured to produce a pulsed laser beam, a focusing optical unit that is configured to focus the pulsed laser beam into the eye tissue, and a scanner system for deflecting the pulsed laser beam onto work target points in the eye tissue. A circuit controls the scanner system in such a way th...