US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Sept. 30 for "Re-treatment for ophthalmic correction of refraction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,065, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Re-treatment for ophthalmic correction of refraction" was invented by Mark Bischoff (Jena, Germany), Dirk Muehlhoff (Jena OT Kunitz, Germany) and Gregor Stobrawa (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of refraction-correcting ophthalmic surgery in tissue of an eye after at least one previous ophthalmic surgery in the tissue, comprising accessing information on a pre-operative cut and defining a cut surface on the basis of the information on the pre-operative cut of the at least one previous ophthalmic surgery of the tissue of the eye." ...