US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for imaging, analysing images and classifying presumed protein deposits in the retina" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,540, issued on Sept. 16.

"Methods and apparatus for imaging, analysing images and classifying presumed protein deposits in the retina" was invented by Melanie Crombie Williams Campbell (Waterloo, Canada), Yunyi Qiu (Kitchener, Canada) and Peter Andrew Charles Neathway (Paris, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and an apparatus for imaging and analysing images of presumed protein deposits in the retina, retinal tissue or retinal structures and discloses methods differentiating or classifying these deposits and other optical signals from retinal structures into 1) whether they contain or do n...