ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,105, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Evaluating and treating eye floaters" was invented by Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic laser surgical system for treating a floater in an eye comprises a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) device that: generates an SLO image of a floater shadow cast by the floater onto a retina of the eye, and provides an xy-location of the floater shadow, where the xy-location is related to the xy-scanner. An interferometer device provides a z-location of the floater, where the z-location is relative to th...