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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1988
Francis A L'Esperance, Jr, Englewood, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
The invention contemplates an inventory of disposable elements adapted for selective placement in the path of laser-beam delivery to the cornea. Each of the disposable elements carries a membrane which is opaque to the laser beam and which is designedly subject to ablation when exposed to the laser beam, the thickness of the membrane being a precharacterized function of local area such that a given laser-beam course of exposure will require greater or lesser time to locally ablate the membrane and thus permit laser-beam exposure past the membrane and into correspondingly localized ablating impingement with the cornea. Stated in other words, varying-spot size at the cornea is achieved by a time-release function of the membrane, on a predetermined area-controlled basis that is designed to achieve the diopter change specifically identified with each particular selectable element.
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