US Patent Issued to STAAR Surgical on May 13 for "Ophthalmic implants for correcting vision with a tunable optic, and methods of manufacture and use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,829, issued on May 13, was assigned to STAAR Surgical Co. (Lake Forest, Calif.).

"Ophthalmic implants for correcting vision with a tunable optic, and methods of manufacture and use" was invented by Keith Holliday (Lake Forest, Calif.), Alexei V. Ossipov (San Clemente, Calif.) and Julian D. Stevens (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ophthalmic implants, their methods of use and manufacture. The implants may include a transparent optic portion and a peripheral non-optic portion coupled to the optic portion. The transparent optic portion may be made of a transparent optic material adapted to allow visible light to pass ...