US Patent Issued to Avedro on May 6 for "Systems and methods for generating patient-specific corneal cross-linking treatment patterns" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,513, issued on May 6, was assigned to Avedro Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for generating patient-specific corneal cross-linking treatment patterns" was invented by David Usher (Waltham, Mass.), Mikhail Smirnov (North Andover, Mass.), Behrouz Tavakol (Lexington, Mass.) and Grace Lytle (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated process receives input tomography data and generates an optimized (customized) treatment pattern for an individual patient without relying on the physician's analysis and judgment. For example, a method for treating a cornea includes receiving tomographic data for a cornea. The...