ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,912, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tectus Corp. (Saratoga, Calif.).

"Electronic contact lens data receiver circuit" was invented by Timothy Cronin (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammad Hekmat (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic contact lens. In some embodiments, the electronic contact lens includes: a receiver, including: a voltage-controlled oscillator; a phase-alignment circuit, connected to a control input of the voltage-controlled oscillator; and an offset-compensating circuit, connected to the control input of the voltage-controlled oscillator, the receiver being configured: to operate in: a calibr...