US Patent Issued to Genentech on July 15 for "Shape discrimination vision assessment and tracking system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,170, issued on July 15, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Shape discrimination vision assessment and tracking system" was invented by Michael Bartlett (Richardson, Texas) and Yi-Zhong Wang (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a handheld vision tester for vision self-testing by a user. The handheld vision tester comprises a touchscreen display, a control, and an interface port. The touchscreen display is configured to present different shapes, either statically or dynamically, to the user for the vision self-testing. One of the different sh...