US Patent Issued to Alcon on Oct. 28 for "Methods and apparatus for wide angle chandelier illuminator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,615, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Methods and apparatus for wide angle chandelier illuminator" was invented by Qing Xiang (Irvine, Calif.), Timothy C. Ryan (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Yu Yan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument to facilitate hands-free illumination of an eye for a surgical procedure. The instrument includes an optical end of unique architecture and surfacing such that the instrument may be left immobile while sufficiently illuminating an eye interior with greater than 100deg of wide beam spread angle provided. Further, the grind surfacing provided to t...