ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,423, issued on April 7.

"Occipital lobe stimulation device" was invented by Robert Alvord (Tualatin, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Occipital lobe stimulation device comprising normal looking glasses having a frame portion with side portions and lens portions, provided together with a battery-powered plurality of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) fixed around an anterior periphery of the frame portion for emitting photons of light to reflect off of an object in the outside world, and a plurality of photoreceptors dispersed across and retained in the lens portions, the photoreceptors being connected via wires to corresponding inverter...