ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,992, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).
"Methods of multi-core fiber alignment" was invented by Bruno Lassalas (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Ronald T. Smith (Irvine, Calif.), Chenguang Diao (Irvine, Calif.) and Alireza Mirsepassi (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments disclosed herein provide methods and systems for aligning multi-core fibers with multi-spot laser beam patterns of laser surgical systems. In particular, certain aspects provide techniques for aligning a rotational angle, or "clocking" angle, of a multi-core fiber with a fixed multi-spot laser beam pattern of ...