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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D585990 | Patient interface for corneal surgery | 02/03/2009 |
| 7402159 | System and method for positioning a patient for laser surgery A system for positioning the eye of a patient, relative to a stationary surgical laser unit, includes a chair for moving the patient. An eye stabilizing element is held against the eye, with a tapered receptacle extending outwardly therefrom. Also, an alignment devi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7390089 | Device and method for aligning an eye with a surgical laser A device for establishing a desired alignment between a patient's eye and a laser system to facilitate an engagement therebetween includes a light source to illuminate the eye. A moveable platform is provided to move the patient relative to the laser system. To esta... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7360893 | Systems and methods for shaping wavefronts in polychromatic light using phase shifting elements A system for producing polychromatic light having selectively shaped wavefronts includes a source for generating light beams of at least two wavelengths (λ1, λ2). The beams are made up of a plurality of contiguous sub-beams that establish λ | 04/22/2008 |
| D559388 | Eye position instrument | 01/08/2008 |
| 7238176 | Method for intrastromal photodisruption of dome-shaped surfaces A method is disclosed for photodisrupting a surface in the stroma of an eye at a substantially constant distance from the anterior surface of the eye. A frame of reference is established for the eye that includes an axis of rotation. Next, the focal point of a laser... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7116688 | Laser system and method for generation of a pulse sequence with controllable parameters and computer program product A laser system for generating at least one pulse and/or pulse sequence(s) of pulses having at least one specified property, such as pulse energy, duration, peak intensity, pulse form and/or timing includes an amplifying cavity. The amplification process is monitored... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7101364 | Method and apparatus for intrastromal refractive surgery A method and apparatus for intrastromal refractive surgery is disclosed wherein tissue at selected locations within the stroma of the cornea is photoablated using a pulsed laser beam. The apparatus includes an optical system for forming a shaped laser beam having a ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103077 | System and method for measuring and controlling an energy of an ultra-short pulse of a laser beam A system for measuring the energy of an ultra-short pulse in a laser beam includes a half-wave plate for orienting the polarization of the beam. A polarizing beam splitter is used to reflect a portion of each pulse of the beam and a remainder of the beam is transmit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6966905 | Eye position control monitor for laser vision correction A system for spatially stabilizing a base point on the optical axis of a patient's eye, for photoablation of the cornea, includes an optical element for identifying the base point. The system also includes an illumination source which is a fixation point for the eye... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6887232 | Closed loop control for intrastromal wavefront-guided ablation A closed-loop control system for the intrastromal photoablation of tissue includes an active mirror for individually directing the component beams of a diagnostic laser beam to a focal point on the retina of an eye. The reflected beam is analyzed to identify a disto... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6730074 | Cornea contact system for laser surgery A system for accurately guiding a laser focal point along a predetermined path within the stroma of a cornea includes a contact lens for conforming the anterior surface of the cornea to a radius of curvature, Rlens, that is approximately 8.3 mm. Conformin... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6641577 | Apparatus and method for creating a corneal flap A method for creating a corneal flap for use in a corneal reshaping procedure includes the step of creating a periphery for the flap by subsurface photoablation of the cornea using a laser beam. Specifically, tissue located at the interface between layers... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6610051 | Device and method for performing refractive surgery A device and method for altering the refractive properties of the cornea by photodisrupting stromal lamellae involves focusing a laser beam within the stroma. To effectuate tissue alteration with minimal laser energies, the focal point of the laser beam i... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6610050 | Laser beam delivery system with multiple focal points An optical system for partitioning and focusing a laser beam into a plurality of focal points to simultaneously photoalter corneal tissue at a plurality of locations includes a laser source. In one embodiment, an active mirror is used to partition the mas... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6563947 | Application specified integrated circuit for use in wavefront detection A device for detecting a wavefront that is defined by a plurality of contiguous light beams includes an array of lenslets for isolating the individual light beams and focusing each individual light beam to a focal point in an x-y plane. The device also ha... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6451006 | Method for separating lamellae A method for separating lamellae in the stroma of an eye includes establishing a focal depth that will be located in relatively weaker tissue at an interface layer between lamellae in the stroma. A laser beam can then be focused to photoablate stromal tis... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6428533 | Closed loop control for refractive laser surgery (LASIK) A closed-loop control system for the superficial photoablation of stromal tissue from an exposed surface includes an active mirror for directing a diagnostic laser beam through the exposed surface to a focal point on the retina of an eye. The reflected be... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6220707 | Method for programming an active mirror to mimic a wavefront A method for programming an active mirror to transform between a distorted wavefront and a plane wavefront requires independently moving each facet of the active mirror along a respective path. The method includes positioning the facets to respectively re... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6050687 | Method and apparatus for measurement of the refractive properties of the human eye A system, and its method, for measuring the optical properties of an eye employs optical components for detecting both the reflection of a first light beam from the anterior surface of the eye, and the reflection of a second light beam from the retina of ... | 04/18/2000 |
