ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,336, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ACUCELA INC. (Seattle).

"Device for projecting images on the retina" was invented by Ryo Kubota (Seattle), Karim Haroud (Villeneuve, Switzerland), Beat Wyss (Niederbipp, Switzerland), Hans Bernhard (Schliern, Switzerland), Jean-Noel Fehr (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Patrizia Weber (Bern, Switzerland), Moritz Haeberli (Bern, Switzerland) and Amitava Gupta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to stimulate the retina comprises one or more light sources coupled to one or more optical elements. The one or more optical elements is configured to illuminate the retina with one or more images...