US Patent Issued to IRIDIUM MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 16 for "Artificial retinal prosthesis for providing color visual perception" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,065, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to IRIDIUM MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Artificial retinal prosthesis for providing color visual perception" was invented by Feng-Hsiung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Long-Sheng Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Lee Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial retinal prosthesis is disclosed, which comprises a plurality of pixel group units to output a spatiotemporal electrical stimulation for inducing color perception. Each of the pixel group units comprises a main pixel unit and at least one surrounding pixel unit. The main pixel unit...