US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Methods for selecting intraocular lenses and relaxing incisions for correcting refractive error" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,124, issued on Dec. 30.

"Methods for selecting intraocular lenses and relaxing incisions for correcting refractive error" was invented by Samir I Sayegh (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for selecting toric intraocular lenses (IOL) and relaxing incision for correcting refractive error. The one or more toric IOL and relaxing incision combinations can be used for off-axis correction of refractive errors such as astigmatism. The disclosure provides a method for selecting toric IOL and relaxing incision combinations that have combined astigmatism correcting powers and off-axis positions or o...