US Patent Issued to IRIDEX on Jan. 27 for "Illuminated treatment probe for delivering laser energy" (California, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,260, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IRIDEX Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Illuminated treatment probe for delivering laser energy" was invented by Steven D. Vold (Bentonville, Ark.), Kenneth A. Peartree (Danville, Calif.) and David Buzawa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates systems, methods, and devices for treating an eye of a patient. In some embodiments, a system may be provided that includes a console for generating a treatment laser and an illumination light. The system may further include a treatment probe for delivering the illumination light to an eye so as to illumina...