ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,809, issued on March 11, was assigned to Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

"Optometry device for testing an individual's eye and associated method" was invented by Stephane Boutinon (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Leonard Hartmann (Charenton-le-Pont, France), Bernard Brechemier (Charenton-le-Pont, France) and Mai-Lan Boytard (Charenton-le-Pont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optometry device for testing an individual's eye, includes a refraction test unit having an optical system for providing different vision correction powers close to the eye of the individual, and a display unit adapted to produce a visual...