ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,425, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University (Wenzhou City, China).

"Large animal model of traumatic optic neuropathy" was invented by Wencan Wu (Wenzhou City, China), Yikui Zhang (Wenzhou City, China), Si Zhang (Wenzhou City, China), Shengjian Lu (Wenzhou City, China), Senmiao Zhu (Wenzhou City, China), Tian Xia (Wenzhou City, China), Zhonghao Yu (Wenzhou City, China), Boyue Xu (Wenzhou City, China) and Liao Yu (Wenzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a clinically-relevant large animal model of traumatic optic neuropathy, employing a goat with orbital anato...