US Patent Issued to Ocular Surface Innovations on April 21 for "Ophthalmic shield and therapeutic method" (Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,288, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ocular Surface Innovations Inc. (Jupiter, Fla.).

"Ophthalmic shield and therapeutic method" was invented by John Gelles (Teaneck, N.J.) and Jerome Legerton (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed, comprising obtaining at least one metric of an eye; and determining, based on the at least one metric of the eye, at least one parameter for manufacturing an ophthalmic shield to be worn on the eye. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic shield may have a minimum horizontal dimension of 18 mm and a minimum vertical dimension of 15 mm. In some embodiments, the ophthalmic shie...