US Patent Issued to The UAB Research Foundation on Oct. 21 for "Retinal vascular stress test for diagnosis of vision-impairing diseases" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,746, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Retinal vascular stress test for diagnosis of vision-impairing diseases" was invented by Massimo Antonio Fazio (Birmingham, Ala.), Christopher Anthony Girkin (Birmingham, Ala.) and Andrea Ramazzotti (Les Cullayes, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Relationships between morphological changes to an eye due to intraocular pressure changes and blood perfusion and nerve function changes in the retina are determined by colocalizing retinal perfusion data, optic nerve head (ONH) mechanical deformation data, visual field data and nerve fiber dat...