ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,884, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIDEK Co. LTD. (Gamagori, Japan).

"Ophthalmic apparatus" was invented by Megumi Tsuchiya (Gamagori, Japan) and Kenji Nakamura (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes a tester having a target projecting optical system and a target photographing optical system. with a configuration on an examinee's eye side being non-telecentric, an alignment adjuster that adjusts at least a positional relationship between an examinee's eye and the tester in the direction of a working distance between the examinee's eye and the tester, and a corrector that acquires an actu...