ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,309, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ophthalmic apparatus" was invented by Yoko Hirohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes an objective lens, and an OCT optical system optical system is configured to project a measurement light onto a subject's left or right eye via an objective lens, and to detect interference light between returning light of the measurement light a reference light having traveled through a reference optical path. An optical axis switching member switches an optical axis of the OCT optical system to approximately coincide with a first or second measure...