US Patent Issued to ViaLase on Nov. 11 for "Surgical system procedure for treatment of the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal using a femtosecond laser" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,523, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ViaLase Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Surgical system procedure for treatment of the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal using a femtosecond laser" was invented by Guy Holland (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Tibor Juhasz (San Clemente, Calif.), Wesley W. Lummis (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Eric R. Mikula (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Ferenc Raksi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Manu Sharma (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Carlos G. Suarez (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target volume of ocular tissue is treated with a laser having a direction of propagation toward the target volume, where t...