ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,174, issued on July 1, was assigned to Diagnosys LLC (Lowell, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for removing artifacts from an electroretinogram" was invented by Jeffrey D. Farmer (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing artifacts from an electroretinogram, the method comprising: visually stimulating at least one eye of a test subject, and using at least two electrodes to measure electrical responses from the at least one eye of the test subject; recording the electrical responses during, and for a predetermined period of time after, the time at which a visual stimulation is applied, whereby to generate a d...