US Patent Issued to TOPCON on March 31 for "Ophthalmic apparatus, method of controlling same, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,812, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ophthalmic apparatus, method of controlling same, and recording medium" was invented by Akira Takahashi (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes a light source, an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, and a controller. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light using light from the light source. The optical scanner is configured to deflect the illumination light to guide the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye. The ...