ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,644, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Reichert Inc. (Depew, N.Y.).
"Rebound tonometer having tilt correction" was invented by Gabriel Norberto Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rebound tonometer is improved by providing a tilt signal from a tilt sensor of the rebound tonometer to a signal processor of the rebound tonometer, and configuring the signal processor to apply a tilt correction factor to a basic IOP measurement value calculated by the signal processor to provide a final IOP measurement value, wherein the tilt correction factor depends on a tilt direction and a degree of tilt indicated by the ...