ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,155, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Imaging markers for verifying biometry" was invented by Steven T. Charles (Memphis, Tenn.) and Sahar Hosseinzadeh Kassani (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein provide improved techniques for displaying imaging markers for verifying biometry. A method includes receiving an indication to initiate a first optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning of an eye; initiating, based on the received indication, the first OCT scanning of the eye; generating, based on the first OCT scanning, a first OCT image of th...