US Patent Issued to Alcon on Aug. 19 for "Generating and evaluating two- and three-dimensional images of the interior of an eye" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,102, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Generating and evaluating two- and three-dimensional images of the interior of an eye" was invented by Utkarsh Sharma (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic laser surgical system for imaging and treating a target in an eye includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device that: directs an imaging beam towards the eye; generates three-dimensional (3D) image data from the imaging beam reflected from the eye; and generates two-dimensional (2D) enface images from the 3D image data. The 2D enface images include a tar...