ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,971, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMO Development LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Method and system for making optical measurement of eye" was invented by Richard J. Copland (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel R. Neal (Tijeras, N.M.) and Thomas D. Raymond (Edgewood, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device: pass a probe beam to the retina of an eye through a refractive region of a combined diffractive-re-fractive intraocular lens (IOL) which is implanted into the eye; provide light returned from the retina to a wavefront sensor which includes a detector array and images the returned light onto the detector array to produce a first ...