ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,320, issued on March 3, was assigned to FORUS HEALTH PVT. LTD. (Bangalore, India).

"Apparatus and method for self-correcting objective refractometry" was invented by Venkatakrishnan Srinivasan (Bangalore, India), Revathy Manthri Rangaraj (Bangalore, India), Subhajit Banerjee Purnapatra (Bangalore, India) and Keerthighaan Kanagasegar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objective refraction error measuring apparatuses are known. Once the measurement is done, there is no known method for confirming if the measurements are correct. Disclosed is an apparatus wherein once the error is measured, the determined values of the err...