ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,771, issued on June 10, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Positioning device" was invented by Beate Bohme (GroBpurschutz, Germany), Gregor Stobrawa (Jena, Germany), Karsten Festag (Jena, Germany) and Marco Lehnort (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological laser therapy positioning device which facilitates accurate positioning of the laser therapy system vis-a-vis the patient's eye. The positioning device includes a first and a second recording unit, which provide recording data from different recording directions, a displacement unit that displaces the relative position of the eye vis-a-v...