ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,303, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Itabashi-ku, Japan).

"Myopia progression analysis device, myopia progression analysis system, myopia progression analysis method, and myopia progression analysis program" was invented by Masashi Nakajima (Tokyo), Yasufumi Fukuma (Wako, Japan) and Shu-Yun Yeh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a myopia progression analysis device including: an eye axial length acquisition section that acquires an eye axial length of an eye of a subject; a reference value acquisition section that acquires a numerical value related to a physical characteristic of the subject other tha...