US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 8 for "Surgical applications with integrated visualization camera and optical coherence tomography" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,972, issued on July 8, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Surgical applications with integrated visualization camera and optical coherence tomography" was invented by Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.), George Charles Polchin (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Maximiliano Ramirez Luna (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Patrick Terry (Goleta, Calif.) and Thomas Paul Riederer (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for guiding an ophthalmic procedure is disclosed. The system includes a housing assembly with a head unit configured to be at least partially directed towards a target site in an eye. An optica...