US Patent Issued to ALCON on Nov. 18 for "Managing laser shot frequency for an ophthalmic surgical system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,100, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Managing laser shot frequency for an ophthalmic surgical system" was invented by Mario Abraham (Burgthann, Germany) and Michael Wittnebel (Hirschaid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic surgical system for treating an eye comprises a laser device and computer. The laser device directs laser pulses at a treatment frequency towards the eye according to a shot list, which comprises a sequence of laser shots and corresponding locations. The sequence of laser shots comprises substrings, where each substring indicates a local shot frequency at a l...