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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Novartis Ag, Basel, CH;
Inventors:
Mark Farley, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Steve Charles, Memphis, TN (US);
Assignee:
NOVARTIS AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/125 (2006.01); A61B 3/13 (2006.01); A61F 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61F 9/007 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/125 (2013.01); A61B 3/13 (2013.01); A61B 17/0231 (2013.01); A61F 9/0061 (2013.01); A61F 9/00736 (2013.01);
Abstract
A contact lens is placed on a patient's eye during ophthalmic surgery, such as vitreoretinal surgery. The contact lens rests on a cornea of an eye of a patient during the surgery and is supported by a contact lens mounting speculum having multiple degrees of freedom to accommodate small movements of the eye while enabling alignment to an optical axis of the surgical microscope. The contact lens mounting speculum may be used with different patients, speculum blades, contact lenses (direct and indirect), and lens mounting positions.