ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,413, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TeleMedC LLC (Fremont, Colombia).

"Mobile treatment system for dry eye syndrome" was invented by Para K. Segaram (Campbell, Calif.), Di Xiao (Brisbane, Australia) and Daniel Francis Min Yi Yap (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices and systems for treating dry eye syndrome by recording and analyzing video of the anterior eye surface using a binocular illuminator device operating with a computer running a software application. The illuminator includes a projector for projecting a simplified Placido ring pattern onto each eye, and an eye cup for aligning the illuminator wit...