US Patent Issued to Belkin Vision on May 13 for "Protection for direct selective laser trabeculoplasty" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,886, issued on May 13, was assigned to Belkin Vision Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).

"Protection for direct selective laser trabeculoplasty" was invented by Zachary Sacks (Modiin, Israel) and Daria Lemann-Blumenthal (Bitzaron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an optical unit (30), including a light source (66), one or more beam-directing elements (50, 56), and a radiation source (48). The radiation source is configured to irradiate an eye (25) of a patient (22) with one or more treatment beams (52) by emitting the treatment beams toward the beam-directing elements, while the eye fixates on the light source by virtue ...