ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,264, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Intelligent topographic corneal procedure advisor" was invented by Mark Lobanoff (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of treatment recommendations for topographic-based excimer laser surgical procedures is described that includes generating accurate cylinder compensation and spherical compensation values that are adjusted to compensate for unique characteristics of advanced topographic-based excimer laser surgical systems. Generating treatment recommendations generally includes determining a topographic vector from a topographic corne...