Dr. Patricia Bath was the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented a better treatment of cataracts, Dr. Bath passed away last week at the age of 76. She led a remarkable life, being the first African American surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. The pioneer was also the first woman ophthalmologist on the faculty of UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute.

"I had a few obstacles but I had to shake it off," Bath told Good Morning America. "Hater-ation, segregation, racism, that's the noise you have to ignore that and keep your eyes focused on the prize, it's just like Dr. Martin Luther King said, so that's what I did."

Bath patented the Laserphaco Probe, short for "laser photoablative cataract surgery."

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“Cataract treatment inventor Dr. Patricia Bath dies at 76”