ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,941, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Psychophysical method to characterize visual symptoms" was invented by Robert Rosen (Groningen, Netherlands) and Carmen Canovas Vidal (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A psychophysical method, system, and apparatuses to characterize visual symptoms. A method may include presenting one or more stimuli to a patient indicating one or more visual symptoms. The patient may produce one or more responses to the stimuli. A determination of a measure of visual symptoms of the patient may be made utilizing a Bayesian method based on the r...