ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,134, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ophthalmic device and ophthalmic optical system" was invented by Masahiro Mizuta (Yokohama, Japan) and Yasufumi Nishi (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic device for observing a subject eye, including: a light source; a scanning section that scans light from the light source; and an objective optical system configured to form a pupil, which has a conjugate relationship with a pupil of the subject eye, at the scanning section, wherein the objective optical system has, in order from the scanning section toward the subject eye, a first lens g...