ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,618, issued on April 14, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial vision parameter learning and automating method for improving visual prosthetic systems" was invented by Maesoon Im (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeonhee Roh (Seoul, South Korea), Na Min An (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Hun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In artificial vision parameter automating method, the system includes a sensory module, a communication module, a database, an image processing module, a learning module and a automating and storing module. The sensory module is configured to take imag...