ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,885, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AIROTA DIAGNOSTICS Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Methods and systems for estimating visual field sensitivities from retinal optical texture analysis (ROTA) maps" was invented by Kai-Shun Christopher Leung (Hong Kong) and Ka-Ngai Alexander Lam (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques evaluate the visual field of a patient's eye using deep learning techniques. A computer system obtains a plurality of cross-sectional scan images of a retina captured by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device. The retina has an inner retinal layer. A retinal optical texture analysis (ROTA) map of th...