ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,037, issued on Sept. 30.

"Devices and methods to aid processing of visual information" was invented by Helen Shan Clark (Ipswich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary visual processing devices and methods are disclosed. Example devices may include a visual processing aid having at least one anchoring member (76) that is attached to a housing (74) such that the anchoring member is positioned proximal to a line of sight, between a retina of a user and a scene. The anchoring member has one or more straight-line sloping branches (80), to enable a user to assimilate visual information from left and right visual fields o...