US Patent Issued to ALCON on July 15 for "Refractive index determination by multi-directional ophthalmic image processing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,169, issued on July 15, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Refractive index determination by multi-directional ophthalmic image processing" was invented by Peter Zieger (Teltow, Germany), Tillmann Wieland (Berlin) and Martin Grundig (Rangsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a non-invasive technique to determine a true set of refractive indices of a patient's eye in order to generate an accurate model of the patient's eye. Certain aspects provide a system for generating a three-dimensional reconstruction model of a patient's eye. The system includes an imaging device configure...