US Patent Issued to Alcon on May 12 for "Methods and systems for ehnanced ophthalmic visualization" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,362, issued on May 12, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for ehnanced ophthalmic visualization" was invented by Qing Xiang (Irvine, Calif.), John Park (Irvine, Calif.), Ying Zhu (Irvine, Calif.) and Jonathan Che-Pin Chang (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a system, a computer-implemented method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for enhanced ophthalmic visualization. A plurality of images corresponding to different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are obtained and combined, such as by pixel-wise subtraction to obtain a combined image. The images ma...