ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,224, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SCHWIND eye-tech-solutions GmbH (Kleinostheim, Germany).

"Method for providing control data for a laser of a treatment apparatus" was invented by Tobias Kehrer (Kleinostheim, Germany) and Samuel Arba Mosquera (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing control data for a laser of a treatment apparatus for the correction of a cornea. The method includes determining a look-up table for preset corneal parameters by a corneal deformation model, wherein the cornea can be modeled in deformed and non-deformed states by the corneal deformat...