US Patent Issued to Alcon on Sept. 15 for "Techniques for quantitatively assessing tear-film dynamics" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,804, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Techniques for quantitatively assessing tear-film dynamics" was invented by Kevin Baker (Duluth, Ga.), Hyo Won Choi (Keller, Texas), David Borja (Suwanee, Ga.) and Carolina Kunnen (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for quantitatively assessing tear-film dynamics associated with contact lenses. An example method includes projecting an image of one or more shapes on a tear film surface of the contact lens worn on the eye, capturing video data, comprising a plurality of image frames, of the o...