ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,769, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Technological University Dublin (Dublin).

"System and method of determining and analysing the ocular biometric status of a patient" was invented by Ian Flitcroft (Dublin) and James Loughman (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented system and method for determining and analysing ocular refractive error of an eye. The method determines a set of sample biometric factors for a reference sample of eyes from a set of reference sample physical characteristics. Physical characteristics of a patient's eye are measured such that the type of measured patient physical characteristics i...