US Patent Issued to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE on Oct. 6 for "Virtual reality techniques for characterizing visual capabilities" (Swiss, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,615, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Virtual reality techniques for characterizing visual capabilities" was invented by Geraint Iwan Davies (Leymen, France), Jonas Franz Dorn (Muenchenstein, Switzerland), Bernhard Fehlmann (Wuerenlos, Switzerland), Noemie Hurst-Fischer (Turckheim, France), Angelos Karatsidis (Rheinfelden, Switzerland) and Joerg Sprengel (Muellheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality system for quantifying functional visual capabilities of a user at varying assessment conditions (e.g., varying light, contrast, color conditions), using a head-mountabl...