US Patent Issued on March 4 for "Methods and apparatus for improving images during visualization of the retina" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,375, issued on March 4.

"Methods and apparatus for improving images during visualization of the retina" was invented by Melanie C W Campbell (Waterloo, Canada) and Julia Zangoulos (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for producing images of the retina or fundus with improved quality and visualization of its features. This is accomplished by adjustment of specific pupil size, pupil position, detector pinhole size and wavelength parameters of the instrument to give improved image quality as described by a chosen image quality metric. Methods are less complex than adaptive optics and give an improved i...