Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
  • Patent number: 11630294
    Abstract: A surgical microscope for visualizing a tissue region contains an illumination device with a light source and an illumination beam path for illuminating an object region with an object plane and an observation device having an observation beam path for imaging the object region with the object plane into an observation plane. A first polarizer can be coupled into the illumination beam path and is suitable for polarizing the illumination light in a first orientation. A polarizer, which can be coupled into the observation beam path, has a second orientation at an angle between 80° and 100° relative to the first orientation. In a first mode, the light source emits illumination light in a first wavelength range between 450 nm and 550 nm, the first polarizer is coupled into the illumination beam path, and the second polarizer is coupled into the observation beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Carl Kuebler
  • Patent number: 11628019
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to a method for generating a reference information item of an eye, wherein at least one characterization information item that characterizes a rhexis size and/or a rhexis position of a potential actual rhexis on an anterior capsular bag wall of the eye is input into an input unit of an ophthalmic surgical apparatus and, depending on the characterization information item, a reference rhexis is determined as at least a constituent part of the reference information item of the eye by an evaluation unit of the ophthalmic surgical apparatus, wherein the determined reference rhexis is optically displayed by an optical display unit of the ophthalmic surgical apparatus. The disclosure further relates to an ophthalmic surgical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Piotr Marczuk
  • Publication number: 20230115686
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an intraocular lens, including the steps of providing a container which is transparent to electromagnetic radiation and in which a liquid that is curable by the electromagnetic radiation is arranged; irradiating the liquid with a set of images formed by the electromagnetic radiation, which each depict an intraocular lens, with each of the images of the set being radiated into the liquid at a different angle of incidence with respect to a reference plane that extends through the liquid, as a result of which the liquid is cured and the cured liquid forms the intraocular lens, an actuator, a solar module and/or a sensor being arranged in the liquid and the intraocular lens being formed around the actuator, the solar module and/or the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Michael THALLER
  • Publication number: 20230112337
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intraocular lens comprising an optics body and a haptic which has a first component with a latching protrusion and a second component with a latching recess, the latching protrusion and the latching recess being arranged at a distance from one another when the haptic is arranged in a relaxed state and being configured to engage with one another when, proceeding from the relaxed state, the haptic is moved in the direction of the optics body into a completely compressed state of the haptic via a partially compressed state of the haptic, the haptic being formed by a single piece and having a haptic cutout which is delimited by the first component and the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Niklas DAMM
  • Publication number: 20230087402
    Abstract: The invention relates to a head-mounted visualization system having a wearing system, at least one light-transmissive optical system, an image generation device designed to generate image information based on the image data supplied to the image generation device, wherein the optical system is designed to supply image information generated by the image generation device to a person wearing the visualization system, and a polarization unit designed to polarize light penetrating the optical system differently in two spatial regions. The invention further relates to a surgical visualization system having such a head-mounted visualization system and to a visualization method for a surgical environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christoph HAUGER, Christoph SCHAEFF, Stefan SAUR
  • Publication number: 20230088437
    Abstract: A head-mounted visualization unit is proposed having an at least partially light-transmissive optical system, wherein the optical system has a first optical channel, which is assigned to a first eye of a user of the head-mounted visualization unit, and a second optical channel, which is assigned to a second eye of the user, wherein the first optical channel is substantially transmissive to optical radiation of a first polarization and substantially opaque to optical radiation of a second polarization, with the first polarization substantially being orthogonal to the second polarization, wherein the second optical channel is substantially transmissive to optical radiation of the second polarization and substantially opaque to optical radiation of the first polarization, wherein at least in the first optical channel a polarizer and a light attenuator are arranged, and wherein the light attenuator is arranged downstream of the polarizer in a direction toward the first eye of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christoph HAUGER, Stefan SAUR, Christoph SCHAEFF
  • Patent number: 11607287
    Abstract: A method of operating a surgical microscope includes detecting a position of a user, and setting a rotation angle of a camera about its main axis such that it is between a first angle and a second angle. The first angle is the rotation angle required to display a first straight object as a vertical line, and the second angle is the rotation angle required to display a second straight object as a horizontal line. The first object extends along a first line arranged in a vertical plane containing a line connecting the position of the user with the field of view. The first line is horizontal and traverses the field of view. The second object extends along a second line traversing the field of view. The second line is horizontal and perpendicular to the first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Fang You, David Dobbelstein, Stefan Saur
  • Publication number: 20230078161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for a machine learning-supported processing pipeline for determining parameter values for an intraocular lens to be inserted. The method comprises providing a scan result of an eye. The scan result is an image of an anatomical structure of the eye. The method further comprises determining biometric data of the eye from the scan results of an eye and using a first, trained machine learning system for determining a final position of an intraocular lens to be inserted, ophthalmological data being used as input data for the first machine learning system. The method further comprises determining a first optical power of the intraocular lens to be inserted, which is based on a physical model in which the determined final position of the intraocular lens and the determined biometric data are used as input variables for the physical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Publication number: 20230084284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented method and a corresponding system for a machine-learning-supported determining of refractive power for a measure for correcting the eyesight of a patient. The method involves providing a scan result of an eye, wherein the scan result represents an image of an anatomical structure of the eye. The method also involves supplying the scan result as input data to a first machine-learning system in the form of a convolutional neural network, and using output values of the first machine-learning system as input data for a second machine-learning system in the form of a multi-layer perceptron, and a target refraction value for the second machine-learning system is used as an additional input value for the second machine-learning system. Finally, the method involves determining parameters for the measure for correcting the eyesight of a patient via an immediate and direct cooperation of the first machine-learning system and the second machine-learning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 11602911
    Abstract: A method for producing an accommodative intraocular lens includes providing first and second components and a support body with an interior space and open to the top, fastening the first component to the support body, generating pressure which is higher in the exterior space than in the interior space such that the first component deforms downward, producing an adhesive surface on the upper side of the first component and/or on the second component, applying a liquid to the first component from above into the latter's downwardly deformed region, the liquid at no time contacting the adhesive surface, fastening the second component to the first component with the adhesive surface, as a result of which the accommodative intraocular lens is formed and the liquid is encapsulated with the first component and the second component in a cavity arranged in the interior of the intraocular lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Benjamin Schreiber
  • Patent number: 11602458
    Abstract: A device for isolating a lenticle in the cornea of an eye. The device includes: a laser beam source to emit pulsed laser radiation having a pulse frequency of 1.2 MHz to 10 MHz, a pulse energy of 1 nJ to 200 nJ and a wavelength penetrating the cornea; a beam-forming unit having beam optics with an image field and that bundles pulsed laser radiation into a focus located inside the image field, and which has a maximum diameter of less than 3 ?m; a beam-deflection unit shifting the focus in the cornea and inside the image field, the focus moving along a path when the image field is resting; and a control unit to control the source and the beam-forming unit to isolate the lenticle by specifying the path. The lenticle is delimited by a cut surface which is curved with regard to a front surface of the cornea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mark Bischoff, Gregor Stobrawa
  • Patent number: 11602457
    Abstract: A treatment apparatus for operatively correcting myopia or hyperopia in an eye includes a laser device controlled by a control device and that separates the corneal tissue by applying a laser beam. The control device controls the laser device to emit the laser beam into the cornea such that a lenticule-shaped volume is isolated in the cornea. The control device, when controlling the laser device, predefines the lenticule-shaped volume such that the volume has a minimum thickness of between 5 and 50 ?m. For myopia correction, the minimum thickness occurs on the edge of the volume, and for hyperopia correction the minimum thickness occurs in the region of the visual axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mark Bischoff, Gregor Stobrawa, Wilfried Bissmann
  • Patent number: 11593917
    Abstract: A method for creating a high-resolution image of an object from low-resolution images of the object is provided. Both the low-resolution images and the high-resolution image are composed of a pixel grid. An image recording device successively records low-resolution images, in which pitches of the grid points of the pixel grid are increased in one image dimension in comparison with the pitches of the grid points of the pixel grid in the high-resolution image to be created. A data processing system registers the low-resolution images with respect to one another to obtain registered images which are superimposed to obtain the high-resolution image. The grid points of the low-resolution images and the grid points of the high-resolution image have same dimensions and the data processing system uses image information obtained from different positions of the object relative to the grid points in the individual low-resolution images to create the high-resolution images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Patrick Hoyer, Stefan Saur, Gerald Panitz
  • Patent number: 11589979
    Abstract: An intraocular lens includes an optical body having a geometric center point through which a longitudinal axis extends and a second main axis extends as a transverse axis. The transverse axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. A flat first and a second haptic body are each adjacent to the optical body. The first and second haptic bodies are arranged point-symmetrically to the geometric center. An outer radius of the intraocular lens about the geometric center and a radial distance from the geometric center to an intersection point of the transverse axis with a circumferential line of the intraocular lens have a ratio to one another from 1:0.5 to 1:0.9. The first haptic body has a recess on the left of the longitudinal axis and another recess on the right thereof. The two recesses each have a length and a width, the length being greater than the width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Dmitry Pankin
  • Publication number: 20230057389
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining the refractive power of an intraocular lens to be inserted is presented. The method includes generating first training data for a machine learning system on the basis of a first physical model for a refractive power for an intraocular lens and training the machine learning system by means of the first training data generated, for the purposes of forming a first learning model for determining the refractive power. Furthermore, the method includes training the machine learning system, which was trained using the first training data, using clinical ophthalmological training data for forming a second learning model for determining the refractive power and providing ophthalmological data of a patient and an expected position of the intraocular lens to be inserted. Moreover, the method includes predicting the refractive power of the intraocular lens to be inserted by means of the trained machine learning system and the second learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Nassir Navab
  • Patent number: D980300
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Jian Jin
  • Patent number: D980889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Jian Jin
  • Patent number: D983359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Steffen Kibbel, Andreas Werner, Christoph Kuebler, Peter Eichert
  • Patent number: D983360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Steffen Kibbel, Andreas Werner, Christoph Kuebler, Peter Eichert
  • Patent number: D983361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Steffen Kibbel, Andreas Werner, Christoph Kuebler, Peter Eichert