ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,871, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Refining lens parameters of an ocular model" was invented by George Hunter Pettit (Fort Worth, Texas), Daniil Nekrassov (Berlin), Peter Zieger (Berlin), Martin Grundig (Rangsdorf, Germany), Horia Grecu (Berlin), Mark Andrew Zielke (Lake Forest, Calif.) and John Alfred Campin (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic system for generating an ocular model of an eye includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device, an aberrometer, and a computer. The OCT device detects OCT light reflected from the eye. The aberrometer detects aberromet...