ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,044, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo) and OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline Fife, Great Britain).

"Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Devin Soares (Marlborough, Mass.), Branden Coleman (Marlborough, Mass.), Bradley Yates (Marlborough, Mass.) and Naoyuki Kawachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system comprises: an image acquisition device acquiring subject eye image data of a patient; and a first information processing device communicating with the image acquisition device and storing the image data, the im...