US Patent Issued to HOYA Optical Labs of America on Aug. 4 for "Eyewear for eliciting a blink response and measurement system thereof" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,281, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HOYA Optical Labs of America Inc. (Lewisville, Texas).

"Eyewear for eliciting a blink response and measurement system thereof" was invented by Griff Altmann (Ramsey, Minn.), Michael Marshall (Ramsey, Minn.), Suvagata Tripathi (Ramsey, Minn.), Joshua Miller (Ramsey, Minn.), Marga Acevedo (Ramsey, Minn.), Craig Drury (Ramsey, Minn.) and Mehran Jaberzadeh (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may create an optical obstruction such as a haze for a predetermined amount of time in front of one or more eyes of the user and thereby trigger a blink response in the user. The device may inc...