US Patent Issued to University of Rochester on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for locating the visual axis on the surface of the cornea" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,202, issued on May 20, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for locating the visual axis on the surface of the cornea" was invented by Geunyoung Yoon (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to find a visual axis of an eye includes illuminating a light source pinhole by a light including at least two different wavelengths; projecting an image of the light source pinhole through a translatable pinhole and through a pupil of the eye onto a retina of the eye; generating a projected image of the translatable pinhole on an anterior surface of the eye or a contact lens; adjusting a positi...