ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,971, issued on March 11, was assigned to PULSEMEDICA CORP. (Edmonton, Canada).
"System and method for detection of floaters" was invented by Nir Katchinskiy (Edmonton, Canada), Christopher Ceroici (Edmonton, Canada), Iman Amini (Edmonton, Canada), Geoffroy Rivet-Sabourin (Quebec, Canada), Michael Brownell (Reno, Nev.) and Eugene Shteyn (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images of a patient's eye can be imaged and the images processed to detect and track floaters within the patient's eye. The floater detection and tracking can be used to identify characteristics of the floaters as well as possibly perform laser treatme...