US Patent Issued to OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus and methods for quantifying the biomechanical attributes of the cornea and the anterior sclera" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,085, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio).

"Apparatus and methods for quantifying the biomechanical attributes of the cornea and the anterior sclera" was invented by Jun Liu (Columbus, Ohio) and Sunny Kwok (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound images of a patient's cornea or sclera include speckles that can be tracked between frames to measure tissue displacement, such as during a heartbeat that changes intraocular pressure. Speckle tracking techniques and noise reduction filters allow for the strain within the tissue to be calculated and compared to known thresholds to ...