ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,216, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Artificial iris, a method for controlling an artificial iris, an artificial iris, a method for controlling an artificial iris, and a method for determining a user-specific profile for an artificial iris and a method for determining a user-specific profile for an artificial iris" was invented by Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero (Antwerp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an artificial iris comprises: receiving a measurement of light intensity detected by a sensor on or adjacent to the artificial iris; accessing a user-specific profile base...