ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,635, issued on Aug. 26.

"System and method for visual field assessment" was invented by Gautam Thor (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for assessing visual field of a subject eye for any blind spots. The method includes the steps of presenting a screen that is rendered as a grid, wherein points of the grids are spaced in units of visual angle. A visual focus point is presented on the screen on the screen and a visual stimulus moves on the screen consecutively while the subject eye focuses on the visual focus point and tracks the movement of the visual stimulus. When the visual stimulus enters a blind...