A61F 9/009
Auxiliary devices making contact with the eyeball and coupling in laser light
Official title: Auxiliary devices making contact with the eyeball and coupling in laser light, {e.g. goniolenses (apparatus for eye examination A61B3/0008)}
A61F9/009 (Auxiliary devices making contact with the eyeball and coupling in laser light) appears on 640 US grants and 704 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 640
- Published applications
- 704
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 667
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 32 | 33 |
| 2025 | 28 | 19 |
| 2026 | 26 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Slotted ocular lens6 Oct 2026US 12,751,863 B2Ocular Instruments, Inc.
- Patient interface device for ophthalmic surgical laser system employing a cap for lens cone handling8 Sep 2026US 12,728,039 B2AMO Development, LLC
- Probes having fiber taper and fluid collection channel for ophthalmic laser treatment4 Aug 2026US 12,697,252 B2IRIDEX Corporation
- Surgical contact lens system with a patient contact lens14 Jul 2026US 12,678,332 B2Alcon Inc.
- Automatic patient positioning within a laser eye surgery system30 Jun 2026US 12,667,490 B2AMO Development, LLC
- Patient interface imaging system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294687 A1Alcon Inc.
- Bi-radial patient interface17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272714 A1Alcon Inc.
- Ophthalmological Patient Interface17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272715 A1Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG
- Mechanisms and methods with variable counterbalance to control movement and force of a head of a medical system at an anatomical site10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263279 A1ViaLase, Inc.
- Mechanisms and methods to control movement of a head of a medical system relative to an anatomical site6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224323 A1ViaLase, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for ophthalmological surgery473US 4,665,913 ALri L.P. · 1987
- Fiber optic ocular endoscope428US 4,607,622 A1986
- Apparatus for ophthalmological surgery407US 4,718,418 ALri L.P. · 1988
- Method and apparatus for generating localized hyperthermia395US 5,230,334 ASummit Technology, Inc. · 1993
- Ophthalmic surgical laser and method365US 6,325,792 B12001