US Patent Issued to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems on Dec. 9 for "Ophthalmological device for processing a curved treatment face" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,113, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG (Port, Switzerland).

"Ophthalmological device for processing a curved treatment face" was invented by Christian Rathjen (Bremen, Germany) and Michael Steinlechner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological device for processing a curved treatment face in eye tissue comprises a scanner system with a plurality of scan axes configured to move the focal spot to target locations in the eye tissue. A circuit is configured control the scanner system to move the focal spot to target locations along a processing path, defined by treatment control data, to proce...