US Patent Issued to University of lowa Research Foundation, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on April 29 for "Automated assessment of glaucoma loss from optical coherence tomography" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,337, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of lowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) and UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Automated assessment of glaucoma loss from optical coherence tomography" was invented by Michael Abramoff (University Heights, Iowa) and Milan Sonka (Coralville, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing glaucoma loss using optical coherence topography. One method according to an aspect comprises receiving optical coherence image data and assessing functional glaucoma damage from retinal optical coherence image data...