US Patent Issued to Avedro on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for cross-linking treatments of an eye" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,072, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Avedro Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for cross-linking treatments of an eye" was invented by Marc D. Friedman (Needham, Mass.), Alexandra Nicklin (Cambriedge, Mass.) and Pavel Kamaev (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example eye treatments detennine an area at a surface of a cornea for delivery of a cross-linking agent. The example treatments disrupt tissue at the area at the surface of the con1ea up to a depth corresponding to apical layers of superficial squamous cells of the cornea, e.g., no greater than approximately 10 micro metre to approximately 15 lm. The ...