US Patent Issued to IRIDEX on May 27 for "System and method for a patient-invisible laser treatment alignment pattern in ophthalmic photomedicine" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,893, issued on May 27, was assigned to IRIDEX Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for a patient-invisible laser treatment alignment pattern in ophthalmic photomedicine" was invented by Chris Sramek (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic illumination method and system with a head-up display imaging system is provided wherein a therapeutic light is generated by a first laser light source configured to generate therapeutic light and a near-infrared wavelength of an alignment pattern is generated by a second laser light source, where the therapeutic light is directed upon an eye to be examined o...