ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,363, issued on May 5, was assigned to Kenvue Brands LLC (Summit, N.J.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for tele-otoscopy" was invented by Eleanor F. Small (Philadelphia), Raymond T. Hebert (Dunes City, Ore.), Sean James Coyle (Pennington, N.J.) and Stephen Anton (Union, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An otoscope apparatus having an objective lens configured to focus light from an object, a field lens positioned parallel to the objective lens along an optical axis, a first aperture and a second aperture positioned, respectively, at a distal end and a proximal end of the objective lens, and a third aperture positioned at a distal ...