US Patent Issued to Alcon on July 14 for "Color correction in ophthalmic imaging" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,498, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Color correction in ophthalmic imaging" was invented by Steven T. Charles (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments provide a method of generating a color-corrected ophthalmic image. The method comprises obtaining an ophthalmic image of an eye with a nuclear sclerotic cataract or a tinted intraocular lens ("IOL"). The method further comprises determining color-shift information associated with the ophthalmic image based on at least one of user input and by processing the obtained image, the color-shift information indicative of th...