ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,683, issued on June 17, was assigned to IRIDEX Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for large spot retinal laser treatment" was invented by Howard Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and George Marcellino (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system for providing a therapeutic treatment to a patient's eye includes a treatment beam source configured to transmit a treatment beam along a treatment beam path. The system further includes a processor coupled to the treatment beam source, the processor being configured to direct the treatment beam onto retinal tissue of the patient's eye and deliver a ...