US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Sept. 23 for "Ophthalmological implant and method for producing same" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,737, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Ophthalmological implant and method for producing same" was invented by Mario Gerlach (Glienicke-Nordbahn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological implant including an imaging optical element, and a haptic with a haptic root. Also, a corresponding method for producing an ophthalmological implant and a characterization system for identifying an ophthalmological implant for example an intraocular lens. The implant includes an unambiguous label and hence an unambiguous and reliable identification option. The label is not able to be mixed...