ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,348, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"System and method of corneal cross-linking" was invented by Johannes Loerner (RoBtal, Germany), Peter Riedel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Linda Weise (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system that may: receive data associated with multiple locations associated with a cornea of an eye; adjust at least one lens, based at least on diameter information of the data associated with at least one of the multiple locations, to set a diameter of a laser beam; and for each location of the multiple locations: determine if the eye has...