ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,416, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH (Aalen, Germany) and Carl Zeiss Shanghai Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Devices and methods for determining data related to a progression of refractive values of a person" was invented by Maria Jose Barraza-Bernal (Aalen, Germany), Arne Ohlendorf (Tubingen, Germany), Pablo Sanz Diez (Tubingen, Germany), Xiancai Feng (Shanghai), Siegfried Wahl (Donzdorf, Germany) and Timo Kratzer (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program for determining data related to a progression of refractive values of a...