US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 7 for "Control device, control system, and control method for ophthalmic surgery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,377, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control system, and control method for ophthalmic surgery" was invented by Tomoyuki Ootsuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a microscopic image in surgery for placing an implant in an eye, an estimation unit that estimates a situation of a surgical field based on an acquisition result of the acquisition unit, and an imaging control unit that controls imaging such that a tomographic image including the implant is captured based on an estimation result of the estimation unit."

The patent wa...