US Patent Issued to Natus Medical on Feb. 4 for "Eye-imaging apparatus and method employing sequential flashing of illumination light in synchronization with the operation of an image sensor" (California, Oregon, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,736, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Natus Medical Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Eye-imaging apparatus and method employing sequential flashing of illumination light in synchronization with the operation of an image sensor" was invented by Yan Zhou (Pleasanton, Calif.), Willem Crone (Malin, Ore.) and John Allison (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye-imaging apparatus including red, green, and blue light sources, one or more optical lenses, a light guide cable to transmit light from the light source, a one-chip color image sensor including a shutter, the color image sensor being operable to measure red, green, and blue l...