ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,644, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG (Port, Switzerland).
"Ophthalmic device for treating an eye" was invented by Christian Rathjen (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic device for treating an eye includes a laser source, a scanner system and an application head with a focusing optic and a patient interface for docking the application head onto the eye. Moreover, the ophthalmic device includes a measurement system for optically capturing eye structures when the application head is docked to the eye and a circuit which is configured to determine reference structures of the eye, w...