ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,782, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oculogica Inc. (New York).

"Method and system for detecting concussion" was invented by Rosina Samadani (New York), Daniel O. Sanderson (New Richmond, Wis.) and Joel D. Sanderson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying an occurrence of a concussion in a subject involves capturing eye blink raw data from at least one eye of the subject. The method next involves analyzing the eye blink raw data to generate at least a first subject specific eye blink metric and determining that a significant difference exists between the first subject specific eye blink metric an...