ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,437, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tracery Ophthalmics Inc. (Toronto).
"Detection, prediction, and classification for ocular disease" was invented by Shelley Boyd (Toronto), Natalie Pankova (Ottawa), Nehad Hirmiz (Toronto) and Huiyuan Liang (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer systems and computer-implemented methods for performing classification, detection, and/or prediction based on processing of ocular images obtained from various imaging modalities are disclosed. Use of delayed near-infrared analysis (DNIRA) as one of the imaging modality is also disclosed."
The patent was filed on April 18, 2019, under Applicat...