Patent ID: 8449534

Claim:
A device for machining the human cornea with focused laser radiation, comprising: controllable components for setting the location of the radiation focus; a control computer for controlling these components; and a control program for the control computer, the control program containing instructions configured to bring about, upon execution by the control computer, the generation of incisions in the cornea in accordance with a predetermined incision figure, the incision figure defining a corneal bed, a flap situated on the bed, and at least one tissue strip situated in the region of a peripheral edge of the flap between the bed and the flap and extending along the edge of the flap, the tissue strip being fully separable from the flap by the focused laser radiation, the tissue strip having a radial width perpendicular to and intersecting with the peripheral direction of the edge of the flap, the radial width also being parallel to the radial direction of the anterior surface of the cornea, the radial width increasing from the most anterior point of the strip towards the deepest surface of the strip.