US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT BERN on Sept. 22 for "Method for obtaining a visual field map of an observer" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,699, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT BERN (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for obtaining a visual field map of an observer" was invented by Serife Seda Kucur (Renens, Switzerland) and Raphael Sznitman (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for obtaining a visual field map of an observer, particularly a perimetry method, wherein a plurality of test locations in front of the observer is provided, at each test location of a subset of said plurality a respective perceived sensitivity threshold is measured, wherein at least one light signal is provided at the respective test locatio...