ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,381, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Eye-surgical treatment apparatus" was invented by Frank Bruckner (Jena, Germany), Wolf Weimer (Jena, Germany), Andreas Weyhausen (Jena, Germany), Mark Bischoff (Jena, Germany) and Gregor Stobrawa (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planning device that generates control data for a treatment apparatus which produces at least one cut surface in the cornea by application of a laser device. The invention further relates to a treatment apparatus having a planning device of the aforementioned type. The invention further relates to a method of genera...