US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 29 for "Real-time surgical reference indicium apparatus and methods for astigmatism correction" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,991, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Real-time surgical reference indicium apparatus and methods for astigmatism correction" was invented by Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for guiding an astigmatism correction procedure on an eye of a patient are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a photosensor configured to record a pre-operative still image of an ocular target surgical site of the patient. The apparatus also includes a real-time, multidimensional visualization module configured to produce a real-time multidimen...