US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on April 29 for "Machine-learning based IOL position determination" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,352, issued on April 29, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Machine-learning based IOL position determination" was invented by Hendrik Burwinkel (Munich), Holger Matz (Unterschneidheim, Germany), Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany) and Christoph Hauger (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-assisted method for position determination for an intraocular lens supported by machine learning. The method comprises providing a scan result for an eye. The scan result here represents an image of an anatomical structure of the eye. The method further comprises use of a trained machine lea...