US Patent Issued to Alcon on June 3 for "Warm white light illumination and digital image processing of digital images during microsurgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,749, issued on June 3, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Warm white light illumination and digital image processing of digital images during microsurgery" was invented by Gillian Myers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Alan Fridman (Goleta, Calif.) and Maximiliano Ramirez Luna (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing digital images during an eye surgery includes producing warm white light via a lighting source by blocking blue and green wavelengths of light using an excitation filter. The method includes illuminating a pupil and iris of the eye with the warm white light during the eye surg...