US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 27 for "Light patterns for corneal topography" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,887, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Light patterns for corneal topography" was invented by Alexander Jobe Fix (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for generating and using an illumination pattern for corneal topography. In some examples, the illumination pattern is projected over a sequence of frames, including a first frame with a first pattern of dots arranged along a two-dimensional grid, and a second frame with a second pattern of dots arranged along the two-dimensional grid. The first pattern differs from the second pattern with respect to a wa...