ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,690, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to IVIS TECHNOLOGIES S.r.l. (Taranto, Italy).
"Customized ablation to correct visual ametropia" was invented by Giuseppe D'Ippolito (Taranto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to apparatuses, computer programs, and methods for visual ametropia correction. In a first example, a position of a desired focusing point relative to a retina of an individual eye may be determined, based on obtained topographic information of the anterior surface and of the posterior surface of the cornea, and refractive aberration information for the eye. In a second example, correction ...