ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,540, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dopavision GmbH (Berlin).

"System and method to stimulate the optic nerve" was invented by Hamed Bahmani (Berlin), Christian Lautner (Berlin) and Markus Mueschenich (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for application of light to one or more eyes of a user is disclosed. The method comprises identification of location of an optic disk on a retina in the one or more eyes and selectively applying the light onto the optic disc to stimulate the optic disk."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/888,524.

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