ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,480, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for vision testing" was invented by Ann E. Elsner (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices to improve the assessment of visual function and overcoming limitations of current methods to identify the visual function that potentially could be reached by a given eye. Multiple eye tests including visual stimuli plus optical measurement components, and methods to combine the results, identify and quantify sources of decreased vision resulting from optical sources, such as a lens...