ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,729, issued on March 17, was assigned to OcuScore LLC (Lehi, Utah).
"Bimodal method for detection and measurement of macular pigments in retina tissue" was invented by Mohsen Sharifzadeh (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Jack Peterson (Elk Ridge, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for bimodal detection and/or imaging of macular pigments. Fundus autofluorescence spectroscopy is applied in a first and a second region of an eye to measure fluorescence values from the fluorescing pigment (e.g., lipofuscin). The first region can be a macula, which has a higher density of macular pigments, and the second reg...