ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,271, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to THYROSCOPE INC. (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method for monitoring thyroid eye disease condition, and system for performing same" was invented by Kyubo Shin (Ulsan, South Korea), Jongchan Kim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Jaemin Park (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring an overall thyroid ophthalmopathy treatment includes requesting a user device to take a facial image and enter a questionnaire survey content according to treatment monitoring cycle; obtaining the facial image and the questionnaire survey content from the user device; obtaining, using the facial image ...