ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,040, issued on Sept. 8.

"Vision assistance apparatus and associated systems and methods" was invented by Rodmehr Tivon Bayegan Semnani (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods provide for a vision assistance apparatus that may enhance the vision of a user and/or provide vision correction. Certain implementations provide for a binocular vision assistance apparatus that may translate an image captured at and/or near a location of a user's impaired eye and translate the image to a location that is perceivable by the user's healthy eye. In certain embodiments, optical systems may be ...