US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on May 27 for "Ophthalmic devices, systems and methods for treating dry eye" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,886, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Ophthalmic devices, systems and methods for treating dry eye" was invented by Fred Shungneng Lee (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Dimitri Azar (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, an electronic contact lens for treating dry eye is presented. According to some aspects, the electronic contact lens includes a concave surface configured to conform to an eye of a patient, a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of an eyelid movement, and at least one capacitor configured to store energy used for stimulating the e...