US Patent Issued to ALCON on Aug. 26 for "Methods and systems for determining intraocular lens (IOL) parameters for cataract surgery" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,841, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for determining intraocular lens (IOL) parameters for cataract surgery" was invented by John Alfred Campin (Southlake, Texas), Horia Grecu (Berlin), George Hunter Pettit (Fort Worth, Texas), Mark Andrew Zielke (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Peter Zieger (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing surgical ophthalmic procedures, such as cataract surgeries. An example method generally includes generating, using one or more measurement devices, one or more data points associat...