Patents by Inventor Delbert Peter Andrews
Delbert Peter Andrews has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12285359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Christian Voigt, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Holger Matz, Christoph Hauger
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Patent number: 12189106Abstract: A microinstrument system comprises: a microinstrument, having at least one integrated optical fiber which has a distal end facing the object to be observed; a recording apparatus, to which light from the object to be observed can be supplied for recording image data with the aid of the at least one optical fiber; a determining device, which is designed to determine the positions of the distal end of the at least one optical fiber at the recording times of the particular image data; wherein a data-processing device, connected to the recording apparatus in order to receive the image data; is connected to the determining device in order to receive the position data; and is designed to compile the image data with the aid of the position data to form a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Christian Voigt, Carolin Klusmann, Matthias Hillenbrand, Max Riedel, Christian Marzi, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Fritz Hengerer
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Patent number: 12156707Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement 10 with an OCT device 20 for scanning an object region volume 22 arranged in an object region 18 with an OCT scanning beam 21, comprising an item 24 which has a section 84 that is arrangeable in the object region 18 and is localizable in the object region volume 22 by means of the OCT device 20, and having a computing unit 60 connected to the OCT device 20 and having a computer program for determining a 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22 and determining the location of the portion of the object 24 in the object region volume 22 by processing OCT scan information obtained with the OCT device 20 by scanning the object region volume 22. According to the invention, the computer program has a calculation routine for determining a target area in the 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22, which routine determines a reference variable for the object 24 for the target area.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Holger Matz, Christian Voigt, Christoph Hauger, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag
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Patent number: 12070424Abstract: A system for short pulse laser eye surgery and a short pulse laser system, in which a beam guidance device passes through a corresponding articulated arm, and through an applicator head and a microscope head of the system, which is movable in a three-dimensional volume both independently of one another as well as connected to each other. The system also includes an easy to use patient interface with a one-piece contact element, a computer program product for methods of the incision guidance and sequentially operating referencing methods with patient interfaces containing markings.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Robert Pomraenke, Jens Ringling, Thomas Wollweber, Stephan Oestreich, Michael Bergt, Rupert Menapace, Ekkehard Fabian, Evangelos Papastathopoulos, Martin Kühner, Dietmar Steinmetz, Holger Heinz, Sascha Koch, Stephan Laqua, Thomas Nobis
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Patent number: 11278451Abstract: A computer program product for controlling a laser-assisted eye treatment, configured to encode a system controller with a routine for planning the eye treatment, invention further relates to a laser-assisted eye treatment system including a laser treatment unit and a system controller, to a method for generating control data for a laser-assisted eye treatment system, to a planning method for a laser-assisted eye treatment and to an eye treatment method using a laser beam for treating a patient's eye. The invention provides systems and methods for a fast laser-assisted eye treatment of a patient's eye which improve the security and minimize the risk of a non-optimal eye treatment and enable sale eye treatment planning and a shortening of the critical phase of the eye treatment. Encoding a system controller by a routine for planning the eye treatment is strictly based on an anatomy of a patient's eye.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill, Stefan Gräber, Julia Werth, Rupert Menapace
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Patent number: 11246664Abstract: A therapeutic method can include receiving an initial astigmatism condition of an eye; receiving a target final astigmatism condition of the eye; generating, based on the initial and target final astigmatism conditions, an eye incision pattern by iterating through a plurality of potential corrective combinations; and cutting the eye based on the eye incision pattern. Each of the potential corrective combinations can be defined by one or more of: an intraocular lens selected from a plurality of intraocular lens options, an access incision selected from a plurality of access incision options, and an arcuate incision selected from a plurality of arcuate incision options.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Kyle Hunter Smith, Jeremiah Robert Elliott
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Publication number: 20210059857Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Christian Voigt, Delbert Peter Andrews, Nancy Hecker-Denschlag, Holger Matz, Christoph Hauger
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Publication number: 20200330278Abstract: A system for short pulse laser eye surgery and a short pulse laser system, in which a beam guidance device passes through a corresponding articulated arm, and through an applicator head and a microscope head of the system, which is movable in a three-dimensional volume both independently of one another as well as connected to each other. The system also includes an easy to use patient interface with a one-piece contact element, a computer program product for methods of the incision guidance and sequentially operating referencing methods with patient interfaces containing markings.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Robert Pomraenke, Jens Ringling, Thomas Wollweber, Stephan Oestreich, Michael Bergt, Rupert Menapace, Ekkehard Fabian, Evangelos Papastathopoulos, Martin Kühner, Dietmar Steinmetz, Holger Heinz, Sascha Koch, Stephan Laqua, Thomas Nobis
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Patent number: 10729586Abstract: A planning device for a scanning pattern of a closed structure in an eye, an ophthalmic laser treatment device and corresponding methods including a scanning pattern of a closed structure in a tissue of a patient's eye in a single-pass method for the control of an ophthalmic laser treatment device, in which a starting point of the macroscopic scanning pattern which contains the scanning pattern is arranged in a region in which the angle between a direction of progress of the macroscopic scanning pattern and a direction of a maximum offset caused by movements of the eye relative to the ophthalmic laser treatment device is minimal, or in a region of a minimum change in the macroscopic scanning pattern (n the z-direction per unit of time, or in a region in which a direction of progress of the macroscopic scanning pattern is parallel to a direction of maximum offset.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Jens Ringling, Delbert Peter Andrews, Alexander Nikolaev, Michael Bergt
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Patent number: 10722399Abstract: A system for short pulse laser eye surgery and a short pulse laser system, in which a beam guidance device passes through a corresponding articulated arm, and through an applicator head and a microscope head of the system, which is movable in a three-dimensional volume both independently of one another as well as connected to each other. The system also includes, an easy-to-use patient interface with a one-piece contact element, a computer program product for methods of the incision guidance and sequentially operating referencing methods with patient interfaces containing markings.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Robert Pomraenke, Jens Ringling, Thomas Wollweber, Stephan Oestreich, Michael Bergt, Rupert Menapace, Ekkehard Fabian, Evangelos Papastathopoulos, Martin Kühner, Dietmar Steinmetz, Holger Heinz, Sascha Koch, Stephan Laqua, Thomas Nobis
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Patent number: 10653557Abstract: An ophthalmological laser therapy device having a pulsed laser, a positioning system and a control system that produce incisions in a tissue of an eye, in particular for producing corneal access incisions and a corresponding method. The invention produces corneal access incisions having increased leak tightness under external influences. Compressive strength, and complex incision geometries can be realized. An ophthalmological laser therapy device has a control system which is programmed to vary the operating parameters of the laser system and/or of the positioning system on the basis of a local position of the focal volume of a laser beam in the corneal tissue such that the access incision in the corneal tissue is varied and/or interrupted in the width of the access incision. The invention further includes a corresponding computer program product and a method for performing a corneal access incision in a corneal tissue of an eye.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Rupert Menapace
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Patent number: 10182719Abstract: A method for detecting refractive errors in the eye that are attributable to a suboptimal surface shape of the front surface and/or rear surface of the cornea. An OCT volume scan and/or one or more OCT line scans of the front eye section are carried out; using the measured values, the front and rear surface of the cornea are detected by an edge detection process; the topography of the front and rear surface of the cornea are determined; and refractive errors are determined from said topographies.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill
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Publication number: 20180110654Abstract: An ophthalmological laser therapy device having a pulsed laser, a positioning system and a control system that produce incisions in a tissue of an eye, in particular for producing corneal access incisions and a corresponding method. The invention produces corneal access incisions having increased leak tightness under external influences. Compressive strength, and complex incision geometries can be realized. An ophthalmological laser therapy device has a control system which is programmed to vary the operating parameters of the laser system and/or of the positioning system on the basis of a local position of the focal volume of a laser beam in the corneal tissue such that the access incision in the corneal tissue is varied and/or interrupted in the width of the access incision. The invention further includes a corresponding computer program product and a method for performing a corneal access incision in a corneal tissue of an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Rupert Menapace
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Publication number: 20170340483Abstract: A system for short pulse laser eye surgery and a short pulse laser system, in which a beam guidance device passes through a corresponding articulated arm, and through an applicator head and a microscope head of the system, which is movable in a three-dimensional volume both independently of one another as well as connected to each other. The system also includes, an easy-to-use patient interface with a one-piece contact element, a computer program product for methods of the incision guidance and sequentially operating referencing methods with patient interfaces containing markings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews, Tobias Damm, Robert Pomraenke, Jens Ringling, Thomas Wollweber, Stephan Oestreich, Michael Bergt, Rupert Menapace, Ekkehard Fabian, Evangelos Papastathopoulos, Martin Kühner, Herrn Dietmar Steinmetz, Holger Heinz, Sascha Koch, Stephan Laqua, Thomas Nobis
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Publication number: 20170181620Abstract: A method for detecting refractive errors in the eye that are attributable to a suboptimal surface shape of the front surface and/or rear surface of the cornea. An OCT volume scan and/or one or more OCT line scans of the front eye section are carried out; using the measured values, the front and rear surface of the cornea are detected by an edge detection process; the topography of the front and rear surface of the cornea are determined; and refractive errors are determined from said topographies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AGInventors: Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill
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Publication number: 20170007446Abstract: A device for measuring the position of an eye of a mammal. To determine a positional change of the eye between two time points, the device comprises: at least one optical coherence tomograph for generating images of at least a part of the retina at the two time points and for emitting corresponding image data and an image processing device which is designed to compare the image data assigned to the two time points and to determine an angle of rotation between the images, wherein the image processing device is additionally designed to output the angle of rotation as information about a cyclotorsion of the eye between the two time points.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Delbert Peter Andrews
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Publication number: 20160296376Abstract: A control device for performing relative calibration of a position of a focal point of a laser, the laser being configured to introduce cuts into tissue. The control device is configured to capture the actual geometry or the actual position of a calibration cut present in the tissue and calibrate the position of the focal point on the basis of the actual geometry or the actual position of the calibration cut.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Michael Stefan Rill, Tobias Damm, Delbert Peter Andrews
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Patent number: 8708488Abstract: A method for carrying out eye surgery comprises a comparison of images recorded before surgery with images recorded during surgery in order to generate a marker which represents a target orientation of an intraocular lens or a difference between a current orientation and the target orientation of the intraocular lens. An eye surgery system respectively comprises an imaging system which is used during a surgery and has a camera, and a diagnostic system which is used before surgery and which also has a camera. The imaging system used during surgery comprises an image processing device in order to perform a computation based on the recorded images, and in order to determine a respective orientation value, from which a representation of a marker representing the target orientation of the intraocular lens is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Martin Kraus, Christoph Kuebler, Delbert Peter Andrews, Mark Lansu, Thomas Schuhrke, Anja Seiwert
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Patent number: D875256Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Walter Matuschek, Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill, Tobias Damm
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Patent number: D949340Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Thomas Wollweber, Delbert Peter Andrews, Michael Stefan Rill, Tobias Damm, Christian Poessel