ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,524, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Systems for real-time laser power monitoring" was invented by Andrei Deev (Pasadena, Calif.), Adela Apostol (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Mikhail Ovchinnikov (Dana Point, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for laser power measurement, and more particularly, systems and methods for laser power measurement in a sterile operating environment. In certain embodiments described herein, power measurement is performed utilizing two laser sources: 1) a first laser source configured to generate a first la...