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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:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
David D Liu, Irvine, CA (US);
Joe Wakil, Houston, TX (US);
Ken Carbonari, Houston, TX (US);
Greg Abbott, Spring, TX (US);
Premier Laser Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A corneal topography system incorporating a handheld unit, a base unit and a computer. The handheld unit includes a placido projector, a light source and a camera that receives the image of the placido image being reflected off of the patient's cornea. The light source is preferably comprised of a lightweight luminescent panel such as an EL panel. The handheld unit further includes a laser and a display that are used to properly align the handheld unit with respect to the patient's cornea into a desired orientation. The resulting reflected image is captured when the handheld unit is in the desired orientation and this image can then be used to obtain corneal topography data for the patient's eye.