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US 12,427,065 · App. 17/938,703 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Re-treatment for ophthalmic correction of refraction

Inventors: Mark Bischoff (Jena, DE); Dirk Muehlhoff (Jena OT Kunitz, DE); Gregor Stobrawa (Jena, DE)
Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
A61F9/00827A61F9/008A61F9/00836A61F2009/00872A61F2009/0088A61K9/0048A61K9/0051
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Patent No.
US 12,427,065
App. No.
17/938,703
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of refraction-correcting ophthalmic surgery in tissue of an eye after at least one previous ophthalmic surgery in the tissue, comprising accessing information on a pre-operative cut and defining a cut surface on the basis of the information on the pre-operative cut of the at least one previous ophthalmic surgery of the tissue of the eye.

Claims (9)

1. A treatment system for correction of refraction of an eye by ophthalmic surgery, the system comprising:

a planning station defining at least one cut surface on a basis of corneal measurement data and generating a control dataset for the corneal cut surface;

a laser device, which receives the control dataset, emits a laser beam from a laser source and directs said beam being directed as a beam focused to a focus located in a cornea of the eye, and a scanner shifting the focus within the cornea to generate the at least one cut in the cornea by deflection of the laser beam based on the control dataset, and

a logging device which logs a progress of the least one cut generated during the ophthalmic surgery, wherein the logging device includes a data storage for storing logged data.

2. The treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the laser device emits laser radiation pulses and the logging device logs a position of individual laser radiation pulses focused into the cornea or logs pulse energy of individual laser radiation pulses focused into the cornea.

3. The treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the logging device logs at least one of the following data: a setting of a laser beam delivery unit, the scanner, and time and cut geometry information.

4. The treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the laser device emits laser radiation pulses and the logging device logs parameters of the emission of laser radiation pulses and an exact time of any termination of the operation and cut geometry data.

5. The treatment system of claim 4 , wherein the parameters of the emission of laser radiation pulses include at least one of frequency of the laser radiation pulses and focus shift speed.

6. The treatment system of claim 1 , further comprising a wave-front measurement device for generating the corneal measurement data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 10, 2022
From: BISCHOFF, MARK; MUEHLHOFF, DIRK; STOBRAWA, GREGOR
To: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
Reel/Frame 061360/0860 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 16826912 · Mar 23, 2020
Division 15853037 · Dec 22, 2017
Continuation 14978992 · Dec 22, 2015
Continuation 14135695 · Dec 20, 2013
Division 12109921 · Apr 25, 2008
Provisional Application 60914179 · Apr 26, 2007
Related Publication 20230029999A1 · Feb 2, 2023
References Cited (1)
US 20080319428A1 · Wiechmann · 2008 [cited by examiner]