ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,103, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FORUS HEALTH PVT. LTD. (Bangalore, India).

"Annular light source device for neonatal fundus camera" was invented by Sourav Pal (Bangalore, India) and Justin Antony (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for defining a structure of an annular light guide device, for a fundus camera. An initial cross section of a wall of a light guide device is created in predefined way. A hollow cavity for a light source is defined within this cross section. The surface of the hollow cavity is an ellipsoid. Using a ray tracing software tool, the initial cross section is refined to...