US Patent Issued to Avedro on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for cross-linking treatments of an eye" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,062, issued on Sept. 30, 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.), Pavel Kamaev (Lexington, Mass.) and Mikhail Smirnov (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for corneal treatment includes a light source that activates cross-linking in at least one selected region of a cornea treated with a cross-linking agent. The light source delivers photoactivating light to the at least one selected region of the cornea according to a set of parameters. The system includes a controller that receives input rel...