ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,142, issued on June 3, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Active visual alignment stimuli in fundus photography" was invented by Ryan Kramer (San Francisco), Sam Kavusi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Eliezer Glik (San Francisco), Seung Ah Lee (San Francisco) and Chinmay Belthangady (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed to a fundus camera and, more specifically, to a fundus camera having a display that projects active visual alignment stimuli onto an eye of an examinee via one or more components of an optimal assembly. The active visual alignment stimuli are dynamically adjust...