US Patent Issued to Alcon on Aug. 19 for "Multi-detector analysis of the tear film of an eye" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,101, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Multi-detector analysis of the tear film of an eye" was invented by John Alfred Campin (Southlake, Texas), Martin Grundig (Rangsdorf, Germany), Daniil Nekrassov (Berlin), George Hunter Pettit (Fort Worth, Texas) and Peter Zieger (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic system for assessing a tear film of an eye comprises measuring devices and a computer. The measuring devices detect light reflected from the eye, where an ocular surface of the eye comprises the tear film, and generate data from the reflected light that desc...