ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,429, issued on June 2, was assigned to Globe Biomedical Inc. (Riverside, Calif.).

"Tear meniscus detection and evaluation system" was invented by Joshua Park (Riverside, Calif.), Rehan Ahmed (Riverside, Calif.) and Douglas Suitt (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectacles-mounted ophthalmic monitoring system may include a spectacles frame comprising a left rim and a right rim, an image sensor coupled with the spectacles frame to capture images of a field of view of an eye, and a processor. The processor may be configured to activate the image sensor to capture an image of the field of view, and identify a height of ...