ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,988, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"System and method for enhancing visualization of an eye image" was invented by Lu Yin (Keller, Texas), Ashok Burton Tripathi (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ramesh Sarangapani (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for visually enhancing an original image of an eye includes a visualization module. A controller is configured to convert an output of the visualization module to a first pixel cloud in a first color space and map the first pixel cloud to a second pixel cloud in a second color space. The method includes identifying at le...