Dr. Patricia Bath — Ophthalmologist · Inventor · 1942–2019
She invented a way to give people back their sight.
Her Laserphaco Probe used light to dissolve cataracts in seconds and restore vision — some to people blind for decades. The first Black woman doctor to receive a U.S. medical patent, she believed sight was a human right.
U.S. Patent No. 4,744,360 · May 17, 1988.