US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Dec. 30 for "Console of an ophthalmic surgical system and ophthalmic surgical system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,158, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Console of an ophthalmic surgical system and ophthalmic surgical system" was invented by Philipp Madlinger (Oberkochen, Germany), Sonja Laicher (Oberkochen, Germany) and Christian Diekow (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console of an ophthalmic surgical system is for operating a surgical handpiece which includes a treatment needle and a drive for driving the treatment needle by oscillation. The console includes a generator configured to provide a time-varying drive signal for the drive, an evaluation unit, and a detection unit. The de...