ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,860, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Verily Health Inc. (Dallas).

"Eye dropper targeting device and method" was invented by Martin Sheridan (El Granada, Calif.), Tim Stowe (Alameda, Calif.) and Dimitri Azar (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for assisting with alignment of a dropping nozzle of an eye dropper bottle includes a tubular hub configured for selective engagement with the dropping nozzle to laterally surround the dropping nozzle within a hub lumen thereof. A first semispherical disc has a first center aperture which laterally surrounds an outer wall of the tubular hub and a first disc body which is semisp...