ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,993, issued on March 25, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a visual performance" was invented by Siegfried Wahl (Donzdorf, Germany), Peter Essig (Tubingen, Germany), Yannick Sauer (Tubingen, Germany) and Alexander Leube (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program, and a device for determining a visual performance of an eye of a person are disclosed. The method includes displaying to at least one eye of a person a visual stimulus configured to elicit at least one type of eye movement in the at least one eye of ...