US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Jan. 27 for "Camera system on mobile device for automated eccentric photorefraction" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,040, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hung Hom, Hong Kong).

"Camera system on mobile device for automated eccentric photorefraction" was invented by Chi Wai Do (Hung Hom, Hong Kong), Grace Ngai (Hung Hom, Hong Kong), Hong Va Leong (Hung Hom, Hong Kong), Lily Yee Lai Chan (Hung Hom, Hong Kong), MK Michael Cheung (Hung Hom, Hong Kong), Yujun Fu (Hung Hom, Hong Kong) and Ling Yau Kiu (Hung Hom, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system on mobile device for automatic eccentric photorefraction to measure potential refraction errors in the human eye. A mobile device such as a smartphon...