ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,572, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IRIDIUM MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Artificial retinal prosthesis" was invented by Feng-Hsiung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Long-Sheng Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial prosthesis is disclosed, which comprises a pixel array, a correlated double sampling unit, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital core, and a digital-to-analog converter. The digital core is configured to perform a calculation of electrical stimulation waveform of each of the pixels by using a processing function of an ANN. As such, the neural ...