US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on June 3 for "Controllable ocular phototherapy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,627, issued on June 3, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Controllable ocular phototherapy" was invented by Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, Calif.) and Colin A. Cook (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a wearable phototherapy eye device. In an example, phototherapy can be controlled by varying an emission property of light emitted from the wearable phototherapy eye device to a user eye. In particular, the wearable phototherapy eye device includes a light source oriented to emit the light towards the user eye. The wearable phototherapy eye d...