ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,063, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to jCyte Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Low luminance mobility test" was invented by Rebecca Kammer (Anaheim, Calif.), Steven Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Aurelie Calabrese (Marseilles, France), Lisa Nguyen (Irvine, Calif.), Terry Tsang (Irvine, Calif.) and Ava K. Bittner (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for testing functional vision of a subject. The systems and methods utilize a plurality of obstacle courses, a plurality of contrast levels of the obstacle courses, a plurality of illumination levels, video-recording, and a robust scoring ...