US Patent Issued to Alcon on Oct. 28 for "Real-time detection of artifacts in ophthalmic images" (Florida, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,469, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Real-time detection of artifacts in ophthalmic images" was invented by Edwin Jay Sarver (Cookeville, Tenn.) and Max Hall (Bradenton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a system for processing image data from an intraoperative diagnostic device in real-time during an ophthalmic procedure. The system comprises an image capture element that captures a grayscale image of a first size and an image processing element that scales the grayscale image from the first size to a second size. The system also comprises a ...