ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,663, issued on June 16, was assigned to Phoenix-Micron Inc. (Bend, Ore.).

"Modular optical system for ophthalmic imaging and related methods thereof" was invented by Jonathan Roy Thorn (Bend, Ore.) and Jonathan Scott Carr (Bend, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to an imaging camera including a filter wheel. The filter wheel includes a main body including a plurality of receptacles and a plurality of wedges. Each of the wedges is attached to one of the plurality of receptacles. Each of the wedges includes a receiving orifice to a filter. The main body of the filter wheel includes an adapter configu...