Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided that provide assistance in selecting appropriate interventions for treatment of disease and injury to the eye. Systems of the inventive concept provide cloud-based processing and storage of clinical and patient-specific data, which can provide treatment recommendations and projected outcomes to a practitioner using a local device. Systems, devices, and methods can generate interactive physiomechanical models of the eye of a specified individual, which are derived measurements of mechanical properties of structures of the eye. The physiomechanical model is interactive, and can be used to emulate the effects of one or more medical interventions in the eye in order to implement an optimized treatment plan for the individual.
Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for replacement of cataractous lenses, the insertions of devices into the eye, and the alignment of IOLs, including toric IOLs. Systems, methods and apparatus for forming laser cut capsulotomies having alignment nubs that are aligned with an astigmatic axis of the eye.
Abstract: A method for the reduction or elimination of astigmatism in an eye that includes an astigmatism axis, the method including determining an astigmatism axis of an eye and forming a first set of incisions in a cornea of the eye that are bisected by the astigmatism axis. The method including forming a second set of incisions in the cornea that are bisected by the astigmatism axis, wherein the first set of incisions and the second set of incisions reduce or eliminate astigmatism in the eye.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 4, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 13, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Eric Valas Teuma, Rudolph W. Frey, Steven E. Bott
Abstract: A laser system that includes a laser source emitting a laser beam along an axis and a keratometer. The keratometer includes a first set of individual light sources that are equally spaced from one another along a first ring and that direct a first light toward an eye and a second set of individual light sources that are equally spaced from another along a second ring and direct a second light toward the eye, wherein the first ring and said second ring are co-planar and concentric with one another about the axis. The laser system includes a telecentric lens that receives the first light and second light reflected off of the eye and a detector that receives light from the telecentric lens and forms an image. The laser system also includes a processor that receives signals from said detector representative of the image and determines an astigmatism axis of the eye based on the signals.
Abstract: A method of generating three dimensional shapes for a cornea and lens of an eye, the method including illuminating an eye with multiple sections of light and obtaining multiple sectional images of said eye based on said multiple sections of light. For each one of the obtained multiple sectional images, the following processes are performed: a) automatically identifying arcs, in two-dimensional space, corresponding to anterior and posterior corneal and lens surfaces of the eye by image analysis and curve fitting of the one of the obtained multiple sectional images; and b) determining an intersection of lines ray traced back from the identified arcs in two-dimensional space with a known position of a section of space containing the section of light that generated the one of the obtained multiple sectional images, wherein the determined intersection defines a three-dimensional arc curve.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 28, 2024
Date of Patent:
September 22, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Rudolph W. Frey, Steven E. Bott
Abstract: There is provided a system, apparatus and methods for enhancing the illumination of structures of the eye using predetermined scan patterns of an illuminating light beam. The systems, apparatus and methods further provide for obtaining enhanced single images of multiple structures of the eye.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 22, 2025
Publication date:
August 27, 2026
Applicant:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Rudolph W. Frey, Richard TY Olmstead, Steven E. Bott, James Strobel
Abstract: A method of generating three dimensional shapes for a cornea and lens of an eye, the method including illuminating an eye with multiple sections of light and obtaining multiple sectional images of said eye based on said multiple sections of light. For each one of the obtained multiple sectional images, the following processes are performed: a) automatically identifying arcs, in two-dimensional space, corresponding to anterior and posterior corneal and lens surfaces of the eye by image analysis and curve fitting of the one of the obtained multiple sectional images; and b) determining an intersection of lines ray traced back from the identified arcs in two-dimensional space with a known position of a section of space containing the section of light that generated the one of the obtained multiple sectional images, wherein the determined intersection defines a three-dimensional arc curve.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2020
Date of Patent:
August 4, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Rudolph W. Frey, Steven E. Bott
Abstract: Laser eye surgery is in recent years more and more augmented and supported by the application of various photodisruptive laser pulse applications to the eye tissue. The here described inventions relates to several methods and system for improved laser eye surgery using photodisruptive laser pulses.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 7, 2025
Publication date:
June 4, 2026
Applicant:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Christopher Horvath, Vanessa Isabella Vera
Abstract: Cataract surgery is in recent years more and more augmented and supported by the application of laser cuts in the eye tissue. Such laser systems are separate units from the phacoemulsification system units that are usually used for cataract extraction. The laser systems require the patient to be positioned under the laser unit and then being moved under the surgical microscope next to the phacoemulsification unit. The here described invention relates to systems combining several aspects of the laser system and the phacoemulsification system. In particular, this invention relates to combining at least some parts of the control system and the housing for both systems and thereby minimizing and optimizing setup time, operating room footprint, patient flow and cost. Furthermore the here disclosed invention relates to integrating the laser system under the surgical microscope and thereby significantly reducing the surgery setup and complexity.
Abstract: Systems and methods for performing laser cataract surgery, for using a biometric system to determine a material property of a structure of the eye, laser pulses in a laser shot pattern having different powers. A therapeutic laser, and laser delivery system having the capability to vary the power of the laser beam.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 22, 2025
Publication date:
April 30, 2026
Applicant:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Dustin Morley, Richard Ty Olmstead
Abstract: Systems and methods for performing laser and phacoemulsification operations. Systems that provide full position and usage around a patient. An integrated laser-ultrasound, including femto-phaco, system having a safety interlock preventing operation of laser during phacoemulsification procedure. An integrated laser-ultrasound, including femto-phaco, system having a movable and repositionable laser arm and laser head. A laser system and an integrated laser-ultrasound, including femto-phaco, system that provides for 330 degrees of clocking positioning around an eye of the patient. Non-handed integrated laser-ultrasound, including femto-phaco, systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Arthur Newton, George Curatu, Gary P. Gray, John McWhirter, Scott Anderson, E. Valaski Teuma, Alan Connaughton, Dustin Morely, Dale McPherson
Abstract: Systems and methods for performing laser cataract surgery, for using a biometric system to determine a material property of a structure of the eye, laser pulses in a laser shot pattern having different powers. A therapeutic laser, and laser delivery system having the capability to vary the power of the laser beam.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 13, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Dustin Morley, Gary P. Gray, Richard Ty Olmstead
Abstract: Systems and methods for performing laser operations to improve the accommodative amplitude of an eye. Systems methods and laser delivery patterns and operation for structural pillars in the lens of the eye to permit deformation of laser effected areas of the lens that are adjacent to the pillars.
Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for replacement of cataractous lenses, the insertions of devices into the eye, and the alignment of IOLs, including toric IOLs. Systems, methods and apparatus for forming laser cut capsulotomies having alignment nubs that are aligned with an astigmatic axis of the eye.
Abstract: A patient interface device for use with a laser surgery apparatus, the device including an upper assembly and a lower assembly attached to the upper assembly. The device including a spherical-like object that engages the lower assembly so that an enclosed volume is defined between the spherical-like object, the lower assembly and the upper assembly, wherein a first liquid substantially fills the enclosed volume. The device further including a channel that contains a second fluid that is exposed to ambient atmosphere.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 20, 2023
Date of Patent:
January 6, 2026
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
E. Valaski Teuma, John McWhirter, Richard Ty Olmstead
Abstract: Systems and methods for performing laser cataract surgery, for using a biometric system to determine a material property of a structure of the eye, laser pulses in a laser shot pattern having different powers. A therapeutic laser, and laser delivery system having the capability to vary the power of the laser beam.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 13, 2020
Date of Patent:
December 23, 2025
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Dustin Morley, Richard Ty Olmstead
Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided that provide assistance in selecting appropriate interventions for treatment of disease and injury to the eye. Systems of the inventive concept provide cloud-based processing and storage of clinical and patient-specific data, which can provide treatment recommendations and projected outcomes to a practitioner using a local device. Systems, devices, and methods can generate interactive physiomechanical models of the eye of a specified individual, which are derived measurements of mechanical properties of structures of the eye. The physiomechanical model is interactive, and can be used to emulate the effects of one or more medical interventions in the eye in order to implement an optimized treatment plan for the individual.
Abstract: There is provided a system, apparatus and methods for developing laser systems that can create precise predetermined clear corneal incisions that are capable of reducing induced astigmatism. The systems, apparatus and methods further provide laser systems that can provide these incisions at or below Bowman's membrane.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 7, 2023
Date of Patent:
October 14, 2025
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Ramon Naranjo-Tackman, Jorge Octavio Villar Kuri, Rudolph W. Frey
Abstract: There is provided a system, apparatus and methods for enhancing the illumination of structures of the eye using predetermined scan patterns of an illuminating light beam. The systems, apparatus and methods further provide for obtaining enhanced single images of multiple structures of the eye.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2024
Date of Patent:
September 23, 2025
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
Gary P. Gray, Rudolph W. Frey, Richard Ty Olmstead, Steven E. Bott, James Strobel
Abstract: A patient interface device (PID) for contacting the surface of the eye and having a meniscus inverter. A pin, clip and ridge configuration for holding a window and maintaining an open reservoir of BSS in a PID. A PID for integrated systems and methods for performing laser and phacoemulsification operations. A PID for a reconfigurable system for performing a laser procedure in a laser configuration, and then being reconfigured into a phaco configuration, to perform a phacoemulsification, and then being reconfigured back to the laser configuration.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 9, 2025
Assignee:
Lensar, Inc.
Inventors:
E. Valaski Teuma, George Curatu, Gary P. Gray, John McWhirter, Arthur Newton, Scott Anderson, Alan Connaughton, Dustin Morley, Dale McPherson