ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,221, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tomey Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Tomographic image processing device and program" was invented by Fushi Li (Nagoya, Japan), Keiichiro Okamoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Risa Higashita (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tomographic image processing device includes a tomographic image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of tomographic images including an anterior chamber angle, the tomographic images being obtained by radial scan with a substantially conical vertex as a center; an analysis unit that obtains an analysis value related to the anterior chamber angle from each of the plurality of...