US Patent Issued to AMO Development on July 8 for "High speed tracking of IOL during refractive index modification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,199, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMO Development LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"High speed tracking of IOL during refractive index modification" was invented by David A. Dewey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Wiltberger (Santa Clara, Calif.), Phillip Gooding (Mountain View, Calif.) and Georg Schuele (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a process of refractive index modification of an intraocular lens (IOL) using an ophthalmic laser system, optical position monitoring of the IOL is performed by a video camera system viewing the top surface of the IOL. Fiducials are incorporated into the IOL at manufacture, or created...