US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Aug. 12 for "Identification and control of myopic progression using distortion" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,132, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Identification and control of myopic progression using distortion" was invented by James T. Schwiegerling (Tucson, Ariz.) and Edward Anthony Lavilla (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems (e.g., a modified fundus camera system) and methods for measuring ocular distortion, the methods comprising projecting an image of a known target pattern having characteristic features onto an area of a retinal plane/surface to provide a distorted retinal image of the target pattern across the area of ...