Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Light emitting diodes are disclosed that utilize multiple conversion materials in the conversion process in order to achieve the desired emission color point. Different embodiments of the present invention can comprise different phosphor types in separate layers on, above or around one or a plurality of LED chips to achieve the desired light conversion. The LEDs can then emit a desired combination of light from the LED chips and conversion material. In some embodiments, conversion materials can be applied as layers of different phosphor types in order of longest emission wavelength phosphor first, followed by shorter emission phosphors in sequence as opposed to applying in a homogeneously mixed phosphor converter. The conversion material layers can be applied as a blanket over the LED chips and the area surrounding the chip, such as the surface of a submount holding the LED chips.

Abstract: Wellbore synthesis techniques are disclosed suitable for use in geothermal applications. Embodiments are provided where open hole drilled wellbores are sealed while drilling to form an impervious layer at the wellbore/formation interface. The techniques may be chemical, thermal, mechanical, biological and are fully intended to irreversibly damage the formation in terms of the permeability thereof. With the permeability negated, the wellbore may be used to create a closed loop surface to surface geothermal well operable in the absence of well casing for maximizing thermal transfer to a circulating working fluid. Formulations for the working and drilling fluids are disclosed.

Abstract: Light emitting diodes are disclosed that utilize multiple conversion materials in the conversion process in order to achieve the desired emission color point. Different embodiments of the present invention can comprise different phosphor types in separate layers on, above or around one or a plurality of LED chips to achieve the desired light conversion. The LEDs can then emit a desired combination of light from the LED chips and conversion material. In some embodiments, conversion materials can be applied as layers of different phosphor types in order of longest emission wavelength phosphor first, followed by shorter emission phosphors in sequence as opposed to applying in a homogeneously mixed phosphor converter. The conversion material layers can be applied as a blanket over the LED chips and the area surrounding the chip, such as the surface of a submount holding the LED chips.

Abstract: Wellbore synthesis techniques are disclosed suitable for use in geothermal applications. Embodiments are provided where open hole drilled wellbores are sealed while drilling in sequenced operations with utilization of phase change materials to form an impervious layer at the wellbore/formation interface in high temperature applications. The techniques may be chemical, thermal, mechanical, biological and are fully intended to irreversibly damage the formation in terms of the permeability thereof. With the permeability negated, the wellbore may be used to create a closed loop surface to surface geothermal well operable in the absence of well casing for heat transfer surfaces for maximizing thermal transfer to a circulating working fluid. Formulations for the working and drilling fluids are disclosed.

Abstract: A solid state lighting package is provided. The package comprising at least one LED element positioned on a top surface of a substrate and a conformal reflective layer of inorganic particles, whereby at least of portion of the light emitted by the LED element is reflected by the conformal reflective layer. A method of manufacturing a solid state lighting package comprising the distribution of inorganic particles, and a method of increasing the luminous flux thereof, is also provided.

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.

Abstract: Operational protocol sequences for recovering energy from a thermally productive formation are disclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A system and a method for interpreting normal and errored segments of network measurement data differently, and processing network measurement data, including: receiving a first query for network measurement data; extracting compressed network measurement data and error metadata from a repository database based upon the first query; decompressing the extracted compressed network measurement data; retrieving an error segment of raw network measurement data based upon the error metadata; and merging the error segment of raw network measurement data with the decompressed extracted compressed network measurement data to produce extracted network measurement data.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A system and a method for interpreting normal and errored segments of network measurement data differently, and processing network measurement data, including: receiving a first query for network measurement data; extracting compressed network measurement data and error metadata from a repository database based upon the first query; decompressing the extracted compressed network measurement data; retrieving an error segment of raw network measurement data based upon the error metadata; and merging the error segment of raw network measurement data with the decompressed extracted compressed network measurement data to produce extracted network measurement data.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Wellbore synthesis techniques are disclosed suitable for use in geothermal applications. Embodiments are provided where open hole drilled wellbores are sealed while drilling to form an impervious layer at the wellbore/formation interface. The techniques may be chemical, thermal, mechanical, biological and are fully intended to irreversibly damage the formation in terms of the permeability thereof. With the permeability negated, the wellbore may be used to create a closed loop surface to surface geothermal well operable in the absence of well casing for maximizing thermal transfer to a circulating working fluid. Formulations for the working and drilling fluids are disclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Provided a resilient waterfowl decoy comprising a molded body with an upper side and a lower side, having an interior cavity, the molded body constructed from a non-brittle copolymer; two keels attached to the lower side of the body, each adapted to receive a weight; two weights each sized and shaped to be received by one of the two keels; and a vent port oriented to allow the passage of air from the interior cavity through the molded body.

Abstract: 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.