ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,886, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Intraocular laser projection system" was invented by Supriyo Sinha (Menlo Park, Calif.), Shungneng Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dimitri Azar (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant that is to be implanted inside the eye of a person contains a laser projection scanning subsystem that is configured to "paint" an image of the scene that is before the person, on the retina. The image of the scene may be acquired by a digital camera that is attached to a head unit that may be worn by the person, and then transmitted to the implant. Other aspects are also...