ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,966, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Phoenix-Micron Inc. (Bend, Ore.).

"Eye-imaging training apparatus and methods of training" was invented by Jonathan Roy Thorn (Bend, Ore.), Jonathan Scott Carr (Bend, Ore.) and Leslie Mackeen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an eye-imaging training apparatus including an actuator to articulate one or more movable eyeball members. The eye-imaging training apparatus provides a caregiver a training tool for practicing various eye-imaging techniques that simulate or mimic natural and animal-like eye movement. For example, the eye-imaging training apparatus m...