ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,937, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Ophthalmic surgical microscope with stroboscopic illumination" was invented by Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.), Reza Khazaeinezhad (Lake Forest, Calif.), Mikhail Ovchinnikov (Dana Point, Calif.), Alireza Malek Tabrizi (Irvine, Calif.) and Keith Watanabe (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic system for visualization of interactions between ocular matter and a probe tip of a probe within or in contact with an ocular space of an eye includes: a visualization tool having a field of view that includes at least a portion of the ocular space o...