ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,728, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fundus observation apparatus" was invented by Yasufumi Fukuma (Wako, Japan) and Yoshikiyo Moriguchi (Itabashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fundus observation apparatus includes an illumination optical system, a two-dimensional image sensor, and a deflecting member. The illumination optical system is configured to illuminate a fundus of a subject's eye with line-shaped illumination light. The two-dimensional image sensor is configured to receive returning light of the illumination light from the fundus on a movable focal plane at a position substantially conju...