ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,253, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Retinal camera with selective illumination bands" was invented by Honglei Wu (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Sam Kavusi (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for imaging a retina with a retinal camera includes illuminating the retina with a plurality of distinct illumination bands that are substantially exclusive of green visible light while substantially not illuminating the retina with the green visible light. A first retinal image is acquired while illuminating the retina with the distinct illumination bands and substantially not...