US Patent Issued to Optomed on Dec. 2 for "Ophthalmic apparatus and method of alignment of ophthalmic apparatus" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,777, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Optomed Plc (Oulu, Finland).

"Ophthalmic apparatus and method of alignment of ophthalmic apparatus" was invented by Ilkka Alasaarela (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus comprises an illumination channel for illuminating a retina of an eye in response to a distance between the ophthalmic apparatus and the eye being within a working range of the ophthalmic apparatus. An imaging channel collects light reflected from the retina. An image capturing arrangement captures images of the retina through the imaging channel while the distance between the ophthalmic apparatus...