ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,617, issued on April 29, was assigned to OLLEYES INC. (Summit, N.J.).

"Split vision visual test" was invented by Alberto O. Gonzalez Garcia (Miami) and Freddy Salomon Morgenstern (Wayne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for providing improved eye tests. Such tests improve upon current eye tests, such as visual acuity tests, by incorporating virtual reality, software mediated guidance to the patient or practitioner such that more accurate results of the eye tests are obtained. Furthermore, through the use of one or more trained machine le...