US Patent Issued to Digital Diagnostics on June 2 for "Systems and methods for alignment of the eye for ocular imaging" (Iowa, California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,431, issued on June 2, was assigned to Digital Diagnostics Inc. (Coralville, Iowa).

"Systems and methods for alignment of the eye for ocular imaging" was invented by Michael D. Abramoff (University Heights, Iowa), Eric Talmage (Byron Center, Mich.), Ben Clark (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Edward DeHoog (Long Beach, Calif.) and Timothy Chung (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ocular alignment system for aligning a subject's eye with an optical axis of an ocular imaging device comprising one or more guide light and one or more baffle configured to mask the one or more guide light from view of the subject such that the one or mor...