ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,637, issued on July 15, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Netherlands).

"System and method for determining the impact of peripheral optical errors on patient locomotion" was invented by Roy Reints (Meerstad, Netherlands), Marrie van der Mooren (Engelbert, Netherlands), Carmen Canovas Vidal (Groningen, Netherlands), Ariel Zenouda (Herblay-sur-Seine, France), Yichao Liu (Suresnes, France), Christopher Reeves (Tuffe val de la Cheronne, France) and Robert Rosen (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantifying the effect of peripheral optical errors on patient locomotion includes projecting a pattern on the...