ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,532, issued on June 24, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"System and method for obtaining profile of eye lens capsule" was invented by Paul J. Missel (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a controller with at least one processor and at least one non-transitory, tangible memory on which instructions are recorded for executing a method for obtaining a profile of a lens capsule of an eye. The profile is represented by respective central surfaces and respective equatorial surfaces separated at respective transition points. The controller is configured to obtain imaging data for a portion o...