US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method for self-administration of optical scanning of a person's eye optical system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,484, issued on Oct. 7.

"Apparatus and method for self-administration of optical scanning of a person's eye optical system" was invented by Steven Verdooner (Sacramento, Calif.) and John Rogers (Canterbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for obtaining optical coherence tomography of the optical system of a person, comprising: an eyepiece customized for alignment and positioning to contact a person's eye socket and having a lens pocket for receiving a refractive lens customized for the person's eye refraction characteristics; a condensing system for receiving light from the eyepiece; a scanning module optically co...