US Patent Issued to Chi Mei Medical Center on June 23 for "Establishing method of retinal layer auto-segmentation model, retinal layer quantification system, eye care device, method for detecting retinal layer thickness and retinal layer area, and method for assessing and predicting neurodegenerative disease" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,001, issued on June 23, was assigned to Chi Mei Medical Center (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Establishing method of retinal layer auto-segmentation model, retinal layer quantification system, eye care device, method for detecting retinal layer thickness and retinal layer area, and method for assessing and predicting neurodegenerative disease" was invented by Ching-Ping Chang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Jia-Yi Hong (Tainan City, Taiwan), Shu-Chun Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan), Jui-Ti Ma (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsin Tseng (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retinal layer quantification system includes an image capturing unit...