ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,297, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RETIVUE LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Wide field fundus camera with auto montage at a single alignment" was invented by Paul Andrew Yates (Charlottesville, Va.), Ming Lai (Charlottesville, Va.), Ta-Wei Yi (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Alex Martinez (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wide field fundus camera having multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at various viewing angles to facilitate wide field retinal examination. The wide field fundus camera images an entire retina at a single alignment. The wide field fundus camera provides vis...