ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,037, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THYROSCOPE INC. (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method for estimating eye protrusion value, and system for performing same" was invented by Joon Hyeon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyubo Shin (Ulsan, South Korea) and Jongchan Kim (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment disclosed in the present application, proposed is a method for estimating an eye protrusion value, the method including: obtaining an image representing at least one eye of the subject, wherein the image includes a plurality of pixels assigned a value corresponding to at least one of brightness and colo...