Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
  • Patent number: 12292560
    Abstract: A contactless visualization system for a microscope for eye surgery includes an ophthalmic loupe positionable in front of a patient's eye and supplies a real and vertically and laterally inverted image of the fundus in an intermediate image plane observable with the microscope. The loupe includes first and second lens elements. When positioned in front of the eye, the first lens element is closer to the eye than the second. A wall extending from the first to the second lens element has a free end in a form of a mount which holds the second lens element. The wall has a passage opening formed therein for removing liquid possibly present in an intermediate space between the first lens element and the second lens element. The first lens element has a boundary surface facing the second lens element. The passage opening includes a lower edge bordering on the boundary surface of the first lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Jonathan Essig, Andre Mueller, Christian Beder
  • Patent number: 12288352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-assisted method for position determination for an intraocular lens supported by machine learning. The method comprises providing a scan result for an eye. The scan result here represents an image of an anatomical structure of the eye. The method further comprises use of a trained machine learning system for the direct determination of a final location of an intraocular lens to be fitted, wherein digital data of the scan of the eye is used as the input data for the machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Hendrik Burwinkel, Holger Matz, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 12288125
    Abstract: A component arrangement includes an x-ray therapy component having a first RFID transponder, a primary packaging, in which the component is sterilely packed, and secondary packaging with a second RFID transponder in which the component packed in the primary packaging is arranged. An x-ray therapy system and a method for operating an x-ray therapy system are provided, in which data of a second RFID transponder arranged in and/or on secondary packaging of the component are read with a second RFID reader of a control device of the x-ray therapy system, and/or data are written to the second RFID transponder, the component sterilely packed in primary packaging is removed from the primary packaging, and data of a first RFID transponder of the component are read with a first RFID reader of an x-ray therapy device of the x-ray therapy system, and/or data are written to the first RFID transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Frank Weigand
  • Patent number: 12285359
    Abstract: An eye surgery surgical system includes a visualization device for visualizing the position of at least one trocar point for a trocar on the sclera of a patient's eye. The trocar serves to introduce a surgical instrument configured for surgical interventions on the fundus of the patient's eye into the patient's eye. The eye surgery surgical system also includes a computer unit which is configured to provide the position of the at least one trocar point to the visualization device. Here, the computer unit contains a trocar point computation routine configured to calculate the position of the at least one trocar point from the location of at least one surgical site in a model of the patient's eye and from geometric data relating to at least one surgical instrument introducible into the patient's eye through the trocar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Holger Matz, Christoph Hauger
  • Publication number: 20250127587
    Abstract: Provided is a surgical operating system, comprising a surgical tool, an optical sensor arranged on or in the surgical tool and configured to measure a distance (8-x) of the surgical tool from a tissue for a plurality of directions (6-x) and/or for a plurality of mutually separated punctiform spatial regions (7-x), an optical coherence tomography measuring device connected to the optical sensor and configured to determine the respective distance (8-x) from the tissue for the plurality of directions (6-x) and/or punctiform spatial regions (7-x) by means of the sensor and to provide the determined distances (8-x). Also provided are a surgical tool and a method for safeguarding a surgical operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Carolin KLUSMANN, Tobias HARTER, Niklas BORCHERS, Matthias HILLENBRAND, Caglar ATAMAN, Florian LUX
  • Publication number: 20250127571
    Abstract: A method for determining a destructive tear in real tissue of a real eye by simulation includes providing an evaluation unit with at least one item of information characterizing the real tissue of the eye. Using the evaluation unit, the method includes using the information to create an at least two-dimensional digital tissue model of the eye tissue. The method includes simulating a tearing action on the tissue using a simulated surgical instrument and/or a simulated point where the instrument acts on the tissue, particularly for actions that could potentially cause tearing during a real ophthalmic surgical procedure. The evaluation unit is then provided with information regarding the reaction of the tissue model to the simulated action. Using the evaluation unit, the method includes using the reaction information and the simulated tearing action to determine a potential tear line in the real tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Matthias Hillenbrand, Rebekka Peter, Ludwig Haide, Steffen Peikert, Daniel Reichard, Johannes Fauser
  • Publication number: 20250107885
    Abstract: Provided is a production device for producing an intraocular lens blank, with a first mold half, which has an outer ring, and a second mold half, which have a spacing state, in which the second mold half is arranged outside the outer ring, and a proximity state, in which the second mold half is clamped in the outer ring as a result of inserting the second mold half in an inserting direction, wherein the first mold half has a central region of the first mold half and the second mold half has a central region of the second mold half, wherein the second mold half has a bellows, which extends fully circumferentially around the central region of the second mold half in a circumferential direction with respect to an optical axis of the optical body and has a first bellows portion and a second bellows portion, which is arranged directly outside the first bellows portion in a radial direction with respect to the optical axis and, in the spacing state, forms with the first bellows portion a first angle (?), which is s
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Thorben BADUR, Stephen Q. ZHOU, Minh CAO, Christoph ZUMBACH, Vincent SUNIO, Alex PFOTENHAUER, Karen HONG
  • Patent number: 12265210
    Abstract: A surgical microscope includes an optical assembly to image an object plane with a microscope main objective system, through which a first stereoscopic partial beam path with a first optical axis and a second stereoscopic partial beam path with a second optical axis pass. An illumination device includes a light source assembly to provide illumination light in a luminous plane, with a radiant field stop, and an illumination optical unit which at least partially images a luminous object arranged in the luminous plane in the illumination beam path into a luminous image plane located in the microscope main objective system or for the vertical distance z of which from the microscope main objective system on the side facing the object region or the side facing away from the object region, in relation to a focal length f of the microscope main objective system, the following applies: z/f<10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Daniel Kolster, Manuel Steidle, Peter Reimer, André Mueller, Franz Merz
  • Patent number: 12262866
    Abstract: A visualization system includes an observation apparatus having a first image recording device to observe an operation region with a first observation plane, and an endoscope having a probe and a second image recording device to observe the operation region with a second observation plane. A display device represents a first image recorded by the first image recording device in a first orientation and a second image recorded by the second image recording device in a second orientation. The visualization system further includes a tracking system to determine an orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus and a controller configured to transform the second image based on the orientation of the endoscope relative to the observation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Stefan Saur, Christoph Hauger, Martin Fanenbruck, Helge Jess, Roland Guckler
  • Patent number: 12259537
    Abstract: A method for operating a microscopy system and to a microscopy system are provided. A pivot point is defined, wherein the microscopy system is operated such that a microscope of the microscopy system moves at a constant distance around the pivot point, wherein a reference surface is determined, wherein an intersection of an optical axis of the microscope and the reference surface is determined as the pivot point, wherein the pose of the reference surface is defined in a focal position-independent reference coordinate system and the pivot point is determined as the intersection of the optical axis with the thus defined reference surface in the reference coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Markus Philipp
  • Patent number: 12257146
    Abstract: An ophthalmosurgical injector includes a cannula, a barrel, an outer plunger mounted in the barrel and together with the barrel delimiting a barrel cavity arranged in the barrel, and into which an intraocular lens can be introduced, and an inner plunger mounted in the outer plunger and together with the outer plunger delimiting an outer plunger cavity arranged in the outer plunger and into which a liquid can be introduced. The injector is configured such that a first movement, executed by the inner plunger relative to the outer plunger such that the outer plunger cavity becomes smaller, causes the liquid to flow from the outer plunger cavity into the barrel cavity, and a second movement, executed by the outer plunger relative to the barrel such that the barrel cavity becomes smaller, causes the intraocular lens to be pressed out of the barrel cavity and into the cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Thorben Badur
  • Patent number: 12251339
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing incisions in an interior of an eye. For example, the apparatus includes an image recording device that records at least part of the image field and an image evaluation device that evaluates recordings of the image recording device and produces signals for the control device and/or the operator. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing incisions in the interior of an eye, wherein an image recording device is used to record at least part of the image field and an image evaluation device evaluates the recordings of the image recording device and produces signals for the control device and/or the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mark Bischoff, Gregor Stobrawa, Dieter Grebner
  • Patent number: 12254652
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the three-dimensional positions of points in a target region on a patient in a reference coordinate system of a surgical visualization system. The method includes generating at least one light marking in the target region. Using at least one imaging unit to capture at least one image representation containing the at least one light marking. Determining a three-dimensional position of the at least one light marking in the reference coordinate system proceeding from image coordinates of the light marking in the captured image representation, with the known pose of the at least one light source and/or the light path and the known pose of the at least one imaging unit being taken into account. Repeating measures multiple times, with a position of the at least one light marking within the target region being changed each time, and providing the determined three-dimensional positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian Voigt, Dominik Litsch
  • Patent number: 12245932
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a first opening, a second opening, a channel, an intraocular lens arranged in the channel, and a cartridge plunger arranged in the channel and configured to firstly preload the intraocular lens by moving the cartridge plunger towards the first opening, then to fold the lens by moving it in the tapered region, and finally to push the lens out of the channel via the first opening. The cartridge is configured to be coupled to a syringe such that a fluid can be injected into the channel, and as a result the cartridge plunger can be propelled in a movement direction towards the first opening. The cartridge plunger includes a first cartridge plunger longitudinal end, a second cartridge plunger longitudinal end, and a fluid line via which the fluid can be injected from the second to the first cartridge plunger longitudinal end and finally to the intraocular lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Niklas Damm
  • Patent number: 12249052
    Abstract: A system and/or method uses a trained U-Net neural network to remove flow artifacts from optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography (OCTA) data. The trained U-Net receives as input both OCT structural volume data and OCTA volume data, but expands the OCTA volume data to include depth information. The U-Net applies dynamic pooling along the depth direction and weighs more heavily the portion of the data that follows (e.g., along the contours of) select retinal layers. In this manner the U-Net applies contextually different computations at different axial locations based at least in part on the depth index information and/or (e.g., proximity to) the select retinal layers. The U-net outputs OCT volume data of reduced flow artifacts as compared with the input OCTA data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Aaron Lee, Warren Lewis, Luis De Sisternes, Theodore Spaide
  • Patent number: 12232809
    Abstract: Provided is to a system with an interface for providing visualization data for visualizing at least one section of a patient's eye, comprising an OCT device for capturing OCT scanning data by scanning the section of the patient's eye by means of an OCT scanning beam and comprising a computer unit for processing the OCT scanning data into the visualization data within the scope of an image rectification algorithm, which is designed to output the visualization data at the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Holger Matz, Benjamin Sorg
  • Patent number: 12236613
    Abstract: A method and a device for generating a control signal for a controllable device are provided. The controllable device has an optical position detection system. At least two images of at least one spatial region are generated with at least one optical detection device of the optical position detection system. Markers are identified in the images and the control signal is generated when a relative position between at least two markers changes. In addition, a marker array and a controllable system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Zuzanna Derda, Stefan Schute, Adrian Samp
  • Patent number: 12226346
    Abstract: The invention relates to a planning device for generating control data for a treatment apparatus, which by means of a laser device generates at least one cut surface in the cornea, and to a treatment apparatus having such a planning device. The invention further relates to a method for generating control data for a treatment apparatus, which by means of a laser device generates at least one cut surface in the cornea, and to a corresponding method for eye surgery. The planning device is thereby provided with calculating means for defining the corneal incision surfaces, wherein the calculation means determines the corneal incisions such that after inserting an implant into the cornea, existing refractive errors are counteracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mark Bischoff, Gregor Stobrawa
  • Patent number: 12228721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting and/or calibrating a medical microscope, the following being implemented for at least one observer beam path of the medical microscope: capturing respective image representations of an object at different magnification levels of a zoom optical unit, and determining a zoom center using the captured image representations as a starting point, and i) capturing respective further image representations at different axis positions of at least one linear or rotational movement axis of the medical microscope, a rotation of the capture device relative to the at least one linear or rotational movement axis being determined using the captured further image representations as a starting point, and/or ii) capturing respective further image representations of the object in different focal planes and/or at different working distances in the case of an off-centered imaging optical unit, a rotation of the capture device being determined using the captured further image representa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Richard Bäumer, Marco Woerner
  • Patent number: 12220310
    Abstract: An ophthalmo-surgical injector includes an injector body, a tip with which an intraocular lens can be pressed out of the injector, a first plunger mounted longitudinally displaceably on the injector body and having a first projection, a shaft rotatably mounted in the injector body and having a first guide and a second guide which are each wound about the shaft, and a second plunger mounted longitudinally displaceably on the injector body and having a second projection. The first projection engages in the first guide, such that the first plunger is configured to effect, with a longitudinal displacement of the first plunger, a rotation of the shaft about a longitudinal axis of the injector body, and the second projection engages in the second guide, as a result of which the shaft is configured to effect, with the rotation effected by the first plunger, a longitudinal displacement of the second plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Mario Gerlach