ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,781, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AMO Development LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for laser eye surgery system" was invented by Bruce Woodley (Palo Alto, Calif.), Javier Gonzalez (Palo Alto, Calif.), Katrina Bell Sheehy (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel Oliveira Santos (San Francisco), Darrel Q. Pham (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Daniel Gallagher (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Lawrence Edward Miller (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for planning and forming incisions in a cornea, lens capsule, and/or crystalline lens nucleus are disclosed. A method includes measuring spatial dispositions,...