ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,019, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AMO Groningen B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands).

"Telescopic optical components for evaluating photic effects of intraocular lenses" was invented by Dmitry Romashchenko (Groningen, Netherlands), Linda Lundstrom (Stockholm), Peter Unsbo (Stockholm) and Marrie Van der Mooren (Groningen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus uses optical components arranged as a telescope to simulate the optical effects of intraocular lenses on images viewed in the presence of scattering light and glare sources. By simulating a view of a real image through an intraocular lens and projecting the simul...