US Patent Issued to Centre for Eye and Vision Research, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on April 21 for "System for preventing and retarding myopia onset and progression and the applications thereof" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,772, issued on April 21, was assigned to Centre for Eye and Vision Research Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"System for preventing and retarding myopia onset and progression and the applications thereof" was invented by Benjamin Simon Thompson (Wellesley, Canada), Chi Ho To (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yan Yin Tse (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ka Man Chun (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Elie Aymard Jonathan De Lestrange-Anginieur (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices for preventing and/or retarding myopia onset and/or progression are provided. P...