US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates, The Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for monitoring corneal tissue health" (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,471, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Method and system for monitoring corneal tissue health" was invented by Gopalan V. Balaji (Kennett Square, Pa.), Jose J. de la Cruz (Chicago), Theodore C. Fleck (Newark, Del.), Genevieve M. Gurczenski (Elkton, Md.), Thomas B. Schmiedel (Middletown, Del.) and Esen K. Akpek (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring health of corneal tissue are disclosed. The system includes a corneal measurement device configured to measure a first state of health indicator t...