ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,923, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bioxytech Retina Inc. (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for measuring structural and functional properties of tissue" was invented by Ali Basiri (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems for determining a parameter across a surface of a tissue such as a retinal tissue of an eye of a subject. In some cases, the determined parameter is tissue oxygenation which can be used for a variety of clinical applications such as diagnosing and/or modeling a disease in the subject. In some examples, the method is performed by detecting one or more...