ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,505, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Visualization and treatment of media opacity in eye" was invented by Steven T. Charles (Memphis, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating a media opacity in a vitreous media of an eye includes a visualization module adapted to provide visualization data of a portion of the eye via one or more viewing beams. The system includes a laser module adapted to selectively generate a treatment beam directed towards the media opacity in order to disrupt the media opacity. The laser module and the visualization module have a shared aperture for guidin...