ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,161, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ophthalmic apparatus" was invented by Masashi Nakajima (Ageo, Japan), Jonathan Liu (Tokyo) and Yasufumi Fukuma (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an OCT unit, an analyzer, and a calculator. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a dioptric power in a first region including a fovea of a subject's eye. The OCT unit is configured to acquire OCT data of a fundus of the subject's eye using optical coherence tomography. The analyzer is configured to specify a shape of the fundus by analyzing the OCT data. The cal...