ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,366, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zenni Optical Inc. (Novato, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for evaluating eye movement disorders through eye-tracking exercises" was invented by Steven Lee (Barrington, Ill.), Julia Zhen (Novato, Calif.), ChyrSong Ting (Novato, Calif.), Matthew James Golino (Brookhaven, Ga.), Justin Paul Dempsey (Ottawa) and Jeffrey Joseph Fillingham (Dartmouth, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient's visual health can be evaluated via a virtual reality (VR) system, which includes a VR headset in electronic communication with a computing device. The computing device causes virtual environments, which can i...