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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Optimedica Corporation, Santa Ana, CA (US);
William Culbertson, Miami, FL (US);
Barry Seibel, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Neil Friedman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Georg Schuele, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Phillip Gooding, Mountain View, CA (US);
Optimedica Corporation, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for treating a cataractous lens of a patient's eye includes a laser source for generating a light beam, a scanning system for deflecting the light beam to form a treatment pattern of the light beam, and a controller operably coupled to the laser source and scanning system and configured to operate the scanner to form the treatment pattern. The treatment pattern is a plurality of cuts in the form two or more different incision patterns for segmenting the lens tissue into a plurality of patterned pieces. The incision pattern includes: a first incision pattern including two or more crossing cut incision planes; and a second incision pattern comprising one or more laser incision each extending along a first length between a posterior and an anterior surface of the lens capsule.