ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,255, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OPTOMED PLC (Oulu, Finland).
"Ophthalmic apparatus and alignment method" was invented by Juha Lipponen (Oulu, Finland), Ilkka Alasaarela (Oulu, Finland), Matti Pohjoisaho (Oulu, Finland) and Seppo Ronkko (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes an optical radiation source, which direct rays of optical radiation in a converging manner toward a reference plane, and causes the projections of the rays of optical radiation on a plane parallel to the normal of the reference plane to cross at a plane parallel to the reference plane and located deterministically re...