US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Oct. 14 for "Solitary wave-based trans-lid tonometer" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,104, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Solitary wave-based trans-lid tonometer" was invented by Piervincenzo Rizzo (Pittsburgh), Amir Nasrollahi (Pittsburgh), Samuel Dickerson (Pittsburgh) and Ritesh Misra (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus include a particle array configured to propagate an incident solitary wave to an eye, a housing configured to support the particle array, and a sensor coupled to the particle array and configured to detect a return solitary wave propagating along the particle array from the eye. Methods includ...