US Patent Issued to Alcon on Nov. 25 for "Imaging a target within an eye and calibrating imaging devices" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,250, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Imaging a target within an eye and calibrating imaging devices" was invented by Utkarsh Sharma (Solon, Ohio) and Zsolt Bor (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic laser surgical system for imaging and treating a target in an eye includes an imaging system with an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device that directs an OCT imaging beam along an imaging beam path towards the target in the eye, and generates OCT images from the OCT imaging beam reflected from the eye. The beam combining and alignment device a...