ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,744, issued on July 15, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Control apparatus for an ophthalmic surgical system, ophthalmic surgical system and computer program product" was invented by Christian Albrecht (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for an ophthalmic surgical system includes a receiver module which received a signal containing at least one geometric size of a pupil of an eye to be treated at least at a first time during a surgical procedure on the eye, at which fluid is supplied to and/or removed from the eye to be treated on the basis of set values of fluidic parameters of a...