US Patent Issued to ALCON on Aug. 12 for "Adjusting laser pulses to compensate for interfering objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,428, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Adjusting laser pulses to compensate for interfering objects" was invented by Mario Abraham (Burgthann, Germany) and Michael Wittnebel (Hirschaid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic surgical system for performing a surgical procedure on an eye comprises a laser device, a camera, and a computer. The laser device comprises a laser source and a scanner. The laser source generates a laser beam comprising pulses, and the scanner directs the pulses towards tissue of the eye according to a laser focal spot pattern. The came...