ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,886, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Belkin Vision Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"Automated capsulotomy" was invented by Zachary Shane Sacks (Modiin, Israel) and Michael Belkin (Givat Shmu'el, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (20) includes a radiation source (48) and a controller (44). The controller is configured to define a treatment zone (88) on a capsule (86) of an eye (25) of a subject (22), and to form an opening (96) in the capsule, subsequently to defining the treatment zone, by irradiating multiple target regions (94) within the treatment zone in an iterative process that includes, during each one of multiple iterat...