ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,705, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TeleMedC LLC (Fremont, Colombia).

"Mobile treatment system for dry eye syndrome" was invented by Para K. Segaram (Campbell, Calif.), Di Xiao (Brisband, 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 through the use of an illuminator device operating with a computer running a software application. The illuminator includes a projector for projecting a simplified Placido ring pattern onto the eye, and an eye cup for aligning the illuminato...