ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,765, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus to image a position and rotation of an ophthalmic lens worn on a human eye" was invented by Geunyoung Yoon (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises positioning, on a subject's eye, an ophthalmic lens having one or more physical marks, directing light through the eye to cause reflection of light off the retina of the eye, visualizing one or more images representative of the at least one physical mark and determining an orientation of the ophthalmic lens based on the one or more images."

The patent was filed on De...