US Patent Issued to University of Rochester on March 3 for "Methods and systems for quantitative ocular surface diagnostics" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,319, issued on March 3, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Methods and systems for quantitative ocular surface diagnostics" was invented by James M. Zavislan (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Aizhong Zhang (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing thin films, such as, for example, diagnosis of dry eye syndrome, thin-film optical metrology testing, etc. The present disclosure may be embodied as a tearscope, which is sometimes referred to herein as a Macroscopic Imaging Ellipsometer (MIE) because it may be considered to be an imaging ellipsometer ...