US Patent Issued to ALCON on June 24 for "Ablation systems and methods for treating presbyopia" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,938, issued on June 24, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Ablation systems and methods for treating presbyopia" was invented by Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.), Mario Klafke (Mainaschaff, Germany), Johannes Krause (Nuremberg, Germany) and Keith Watanabe (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, an ophthalmic surgical system for treating presbyopia comprises controllable components and a computer. The controllable components comprise a light source that generates a light beam and a scanner that directs a focal point of the light beam. The computer determines an ablation profil...