ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,831, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to i-Lumen Scientific Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Systems and methods to manage microcurrent therapy dose" was invented by James R. Chiapetta (Delano, Minn.) and Michael A. Moffitt (Delano, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and systems for ophthalmic therapy. Electrical therapy delivery characteristics are determined using a testing or calibration phase and a patient's known disease state. Expected values for phosphene thresholds in the patient's eye are used along with measurements characterizing a relationship between therapy output from electrodes near the eye to the ene...