ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,947, issued on April 1, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Systems and methods for retinal imaging" was invented by Wei-Chiang Lin (Miami), Shuliang Jiao (Miami), Rui Zhou (Miami) and Nikolaos Tsoukias (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for retinal imaging are provided. A heads-up display (HUD) can be integrated with advanced retinal imaging modalities, including optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fundoscopy (e.g., fluorescence fundoscopy). The HUD can serve as a crucial component of this approach, offering several key functionalities (e.g., a fixation target an...