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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130357 | Low Wavefront Error Devices, Systems, and Methods for Treating an Eye An optical eye-contact element is disclosed that is at least partly translucent, the optical eye-contact element giving rise to a wavefront error of at most about λ/2, preferentially at most about λ/4, highly preferentially at most about λ/10, in a traversing light b... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120083772 | CORNEAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A system for bilateral or monocular photochemical cross-linking of corneal collagen employs selectable light in a selected wavelength band as the excitation source and riboflavin as the photosensitizer. The system has an illumination source which may have multi-spectral... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083771 | Apparatus and method for processing material with focused electromagnetic radiation An apparatus for processing material with focused electromagnetic radiation, comprises: a source emitting electromagnetic radiation, means for directing the radiation onto the material, means for focusing the radiation on or in the material, a unit for generating a patt... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083773 | SMALL DIAMETER FRAGMATOME FOR MINIMALLY TRAUMATIC RETAINED LENS FRAGMENTS REMOVAL A medical instrument is disclosed, comprising a tubular member with proximal and distal ends. The distal end of the tubular member provides an elongated section having a substantially constant outside diameter of no more than 23-gauge (about 0.57 mm). The tubular member... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071865 | FLOWABLE HYDROGELS FOR CONTROL OF CELL IN-MIGRATION Materials and methods of treating an eye with a hydrogel formed on the eye. Embodiments are provided that include post-keratectomy bandages.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120035597 | METHOD FOR TREATING INCISION SURFACES IN A TRANSPARENT MATERIAL A method for the surface treatment (that is, smoothing and/or sealing) of incision surfaces in a transparent material, in particular in the cornea. For this purpose, the incision surface is subjected to the radiation of a laser (for example, UV laser, preferably excimer... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029489 | Presbyopic vision correction with controlled 3-D patterned mechanical weakening of scleral tissue Treatments to improve ocular conditions such as presbyopia are provided. Structural (mechanical) weakening of the sclera is accomplished through the formation of a 3-D pattern of laser foci in the sclera resulting in an increase in the range of ocular accommodation.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029490 | DOSE DETERMINATION FOR INDUCING MICROCAVITATION IN RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM (RPE) Methods and systems for controlling selective targeting of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells within a treatment region of the RPE. The methods include (a) depositing a selected amount of energy on a test region of the RPE; (b) determining an extent to which microca... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029491 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING EYE TISSUE BY A MEANS OF FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES For processing eye tissue (8) by means of femtosecond laser pulses, an ophthalmological device (1) includes a projection optical unit (2) for the focused projection of the femtosecond laser pulses into the eye tissue (8). Disposed upstream of... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016349 | HYBRID OPHTHALMIC INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INTERFACING A SURGICAL LASER WITH AN EYE Apparatus and methods are provided for interfacing a surgical laser with an eye using a patient interface device that minimizes aberrations through a combination of a contact lens surface positioning and a liquid medium between an anterior surface of the eye and the con... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016352 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC LASER SYSTEM An ophthalmological laser system for photodisruptive irradiation of ocular tissue, including a crystalline lens or a cornea. The system includes an ultra-short pulse laser, the radiation of which is focusable as illumination light via an illumination beam path including... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016350 | LENTICULAR REFRACTIVE SURGERY OF PRESBYOPIA, OTHER REFRACTIVE ERRORS, AND CATARACT RETARDATION Methods for the creation of microspheres treat the clear, intact crystalline lens of the eye with energy pulses, such as from lasers, for the purpose of correcting presbyopia, other refractive errors, and for the retardation and prevention of cataracts. Microsphere form... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110319876 | Method for Laser Cutting a Corneal Pocket A method for using a laser to create a pocket in a patient's cornea is provided. The pocket is created using a femtosecond or a nanosecond laser. The laser ablates tissue within the cornea in a specific shape. The shape of the pocket can be determined by software to cus... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319874 | COHERENT FIBER BUNDLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPHTHALMIC INTERVENTION Systems and processes are described relating to laser-based ophthalmic intervention technologies, and, more specifically, to techniques for creating lesions on an eye using a modular system featuring one or more coherent fiber bundles configured to deliver laser energy ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110319875 | Apparatus and Method for Morphing a Three-Dimensional Target Surface into a Two-Dimensional Image for Use in Guiding a Laser Beam in Ocular Surgery An apparatus and method for ocular surgery includes a delivery system for generating and guiding a surgical laser beam to a focal point on a target surface in a treatment area of an eye. A detector is coupled to the beam path of the surgical laser to create a three-dime... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110306954 | PULSED LASER WITH AN OPTICAL FIBRE FOR HIGH-ENERGY SUB-PICOSECOND PULSES IN THE L BAND, AND LASER TOOL FOR EYE SURGERY A a pulsed laser (10) with an optical fibre and frequency shifting for amplifying high-energy sub-picosecond pulses, includes an oscillator (1), a fibre stretcher (3), one or more preamplification stages and one power amplification stage including a... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110282331 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY WITH MULTIPLE IMAGING INSTRUMENTS A combination includes an OCT system, an optical instrument, optics defining an optical path from the optical instrument to a target, and secondary optics for coupling the OCT system to the optical path. This combination permits simultaneous operation of the OCT system ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282333 | Method and apparatus for treatment of ocular tissue using combined modalities An apparatus and a method are provided for treating a targeted area of ocular tissue in a tissue-sparing manner comprising use of two or more therapeutic modalities, including thermal radiation source (such as an CW infrared fiber laser), operative in a wavelength range... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282332 | System and Method for Precise Beam Positioning in Ocular Surgery A method for ocular surgery requires use of a delivery system for generating and guiding a surgical laser beam to a focal point in a treatment area of an eye. Additionally, a contact device is employed for using the eye to establish a reference datum. Further, an optica... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110264081 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD A polarization beam splitter selectively decouples detection light onto a detector such that it has a polarization direction that differs from the emitted illumination light. This enables the detection of the light scattered back in the eye lens at a high level of accur... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257638 | DISPLAY FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL CONSOLE WITH USER-SELECTABLE SECTORS An ophthalmic surgical system includes a display device and a user interface. The display device generates a display on an image of a patient's eye comprising a plurality of non-overlapping display sectors. Each display sector displays one of a plurality of user-selecta... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110245818 | ADJUSTABLE CHROMOPHORE COMPOUNDS AND MATERIALS INCORPORATING SUCH COMPOUNDS The present invention is directed to adjustable chromophore compounds and materials (e.g., ophthalmic lens materials) incorporating those compounds. The adjustable chromophore compounds include a chemical moiety that structurally changes upon exposure to predetermined e... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110245814 | Automated Non-Invasive Capsulectomy and Anterior Segment Surgical Apparatus and Method An economical computer-controlled non-invasive laser apparatus and method to perform anterior segment surgery in an eye are disclosed. The laser source may include a pumping laser, a Nd:YAG laser cavity gain media, a stimulated Raman converter crystal, intracavity beam ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110245815 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye by irradiating a treatment laser beam thereto, comprises: an irradiation unit including a treatment laser source, and a scanner for scanning an irradiation spot of the treatment beam from the laser sou... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110245816 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye, comprises: a treatment laser source for emitting a treatment laser beam; an aiming light source for emitting an aiming beam; an irradiation unit including a zoom lens for changing a size of each irrad... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110245817 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus for treating a patient's eye, including: a binocular microscopic optical system; a treatment laser source; an optical fiber; an irradiation optical system, the irradiation optical system including: a zoom optical system including ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110218523 | Apparatus for Movable and Weight-Compensating Suspension of a Focusing Objective of a Laser System An apparatus for movable weight-compensating suspension of a focussing objective of a laser system comprises a force generation device to generate a counterforce component | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110208171 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING CUT SURFACES IN A TRANSPARENT MATERIAL A method and a device for forming cut surfaces in a transparent material, particularly in the cornea, by producing optical breakthroughs in the material by application of laser radiation focused into the material. The focal point is adjusted in three dimensions to form ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202045 | Combination of excimer laser ablation and femtosecond laser technology The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing data for vision correction utilizing a volumetric ablation and an intrastromal manipulation. The provided data may be used by a laser ablating the surface of the cornea in combination with a laser which op... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202044 | Optical Coherence Tomographic System for Ophthalmic Surgery Optical imaging techniques and systems provide high-fidelity optical imaging based on optical coherence tomographic imaging and can be used for optical imaging in ophthalmic surgery and imaging-guided surgery. One method for imaging an eye includes positioning the eye r... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110190739 | SERVO CONTROLLED DOCKING FORCE DEVICE FOR USE IN OPHTHALMIC APPLICATIONS A laser treatment system that includes means for applying a laser beam to an eye of a patient and means for registering and immobilizing the eye.... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184394 | Apparatus for Cutting a Human Cornea A device for machining the human cornea with focused pulsed femtosecond laser radiation comprises scanner components for local setting of the beam focus, a control computer for controlling the scanner components, and a control program for the control computer. The contr... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110184393 | Device for the Treatment of Biological Tissue Using Laser Radiation An apparatus for the treatment of biological, in particular living tissue comprising a treatment laser device 1 for generating a pulsed treatment radiation directed on to a target tissue, in an embodiment additionally including a measurement laser device 2, 3<... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110184392 | METHOD FOR PATTERNED PLASMA-MEDIATED MODIFICATION OF THE CRYSTALLINE LENS A method of treating a lens of a patient's eye includes generating a light beam, deflecting the light beam using a scanner to form a treatment pattern of the light beam, delivering the treatment pattern to the lens of a patient's eye to create a plurality of cuts in the... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110178511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PATTERNED PLASMA-MEDIATED LASER TREPHINATION OF THE LENS CAPSULE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL PHACO-SEGMENTATION System and method for making incisions in eye tissue at different depths. The system and method focuses light, possibly in a pattern, at various focal points which are at various depths within the eye tissue. A segmented lens can be used to create multiple focal points ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110172649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING EYE TISSUE AND INTRAOCULAR LENSES As shown in the drawings for purposes of illustration, a method and system for making physical modifications to intraocular targets is disclosed. In varying embodiments, the method and system disclosed herein provide many advantages over the current standard of care. Sp... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110160709 | Apparatus and Processes for Preventing or Delaying One or More Symptoms of Presbyopia The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and processes for preventing or delaying presbyopia. More particularly, the present invention relates to processes and apparatus for ablating epithelial cells in the germinative zone or the pregerminative zone of t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110160622 | PROCESSES AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING, DELAYING OR AMELIORATING ONE OR MORE SYMPTOMS OF PRESBYOPIA The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and processes for preventing or delaying presbyopia. More particularly, the present invention relates to processes and apparatus for ablating epithelial cells in the germinative zone or the pregerminative zone of t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110152845 | STABILIZED RETINAL IMAGING WITH ADAPTIVE OPTICS A system provides an optical image of an object. A first module tracks a reference feature of the object. A second module includes a source for an imaging beam, a scanning device to move the imaging beam along a portion of the object and a detection device receives a si... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144627 | Multi-spot laser probe A multi-spot/multi-fiber laser probe is provided that includes a first adapter; a GRIN lens within the first adapter, the GRIN lens configured to receive a laser beam from a laser source at a proximal end of the GRIN lens and to relay the received laser beam towards a d... | 06/16/2011 |
