ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,427, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Stroma Medical Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for eye imaging and position control" was invented by Gregg Homer (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for altering an eye color of a patient with a color alteration procedure is disclosed that may include imaging the iris with an image sensor prior to the color alteration procedure to generate an image of the iris. A mapping of the iris may be generated from the image. The mapping may include a number of regions corresponding to varying absorption coefficients of a treatment wavelength in the stromal pigment of the ...