US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on May 26 for "Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis with optically configurable confinement of electric field" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,496, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis with optically configurable confinement of electric field" was invented by Zhijie Chen (Stanford, Calif.), Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bingyi Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis is provided with optically configurable confinement of electrical field. A video stream is projected onto a retinal implant. An array of photovoltaic pixels is configured to provide retinal stimulus responsive to the video stream. The photovol...