US Patent Issued to TECHNOLAS PERFECT VISION on Dec. 16 for "Corneal refractive correction using a surface treatment after corneal reshaping" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,225, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TECHNOLAS PERFECT VISION GMBH (Munich).

"Corneal refractive correction using a surface treatment after corneal reshaping" was invented by Wolfgang Kugel (Karlsfeld, Germany) and Christof Donitzky (Eckental, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for treating a cornea of a human eye using laser radiation. The system includes a laser system and a control system, which is configured to control the laser system for performing (a) a reshaping laser ablation for ablating a portion of a stroma of the cornea; and (b) a laser surface treatment. The laser surfac...