US Patent Issued to RETIVUE on Oct. 6 for "Fundus imaging apparatus and methods" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,616, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to RETIVUE LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Fundus imaging apparatus and methods" was invented by Paul Andrew Yates (Charlottesville, Va.) and Viatcheslav Orlov (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speculums and spacers are used to position a retinal camera to obtain images of a fundus of an eye. In some instances, the speculums and spacers are designed to contact the eye to prevent rotation of the eye during imaging. In other instances, no contact is made with the eye. A light source may include visible light or limited to infrared light."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2022, under Applicat...