US Patent Issued to TEARLAB RESEARCH on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for dynamic temperature compensation of tear osmolarity" (Massachusetts, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,472, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TEARLAB RESEARCH INC (Escondido, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic temperature compensation of tear osmolarity" was invented by Benjamin Sullivan (Concord, Mass.) and Steve Zmina (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for measurement of the osmotic pressure of fluids and, more particularly, to improving the measurement accuracy and precision of the osmolarity of the tear film. The approaches described herein improves upon the existing art of tear film osmometry to provide better performance in the presence of environmental instability."

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