US Patent Issued to TOPCON on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for stereoscopic color eye imaging" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,175, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for stereoscopic color eye imaging" was invented by Jongsik Kim (Fort Lee, N.J.), Dawei Li (Oakland, N.J.), Toshihiro Mino (Oakland, N.J.), Zhenguo Wang (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Kinpui Chan (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmological imaging device includes illumination optics having an illumination light source that outputs an illumination light, a scanner that redirects the illumination light toward a portion of an object to be imaged, and an optical image capture device including a camera that receives backscattered light that ...