US Patent Issued to EYE AND EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO FUDAN UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for detecting penetration depth of riboflavin in cornea" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,438, issued on July 21, was assigned to EYE AND EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for detecting penetration depth of riboflavin in cornea" was invented by Xingtao Zhou (Shanghai), Jinhai Huang (Shanghai), Cuizhi Wang (Shanghai), Peijun Yao (Shanghai), Tian Han (Shanghai) and Meiyan Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a penetration depth of riboflavin in a cornea includes acquiring an optical section of RGB colors and converting it into an image in a CIEL*a*b* color space, extracting a luminance component L* in the CIEL*a*b* color space, perform...