ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,154, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Adaptive optics systems and methods for vitreoretinal surgery" was invented by Steven T. Charles (Memphis, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an adaptive optics system including at least one active pixel sensor array that detects light and sends a signal to a processor. The adaptive optics system also includes a wavefront correction system including at least one wavefront control structure and the processor, and that executes instructions on the processor to produce a digital image in which at least one wavefront distortion ...