ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,972,592, issued on April 30, was assigned to Innovega Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated eyewear frame design through image capture" was invented by Jerome Legerton (Jupiter, Fla.) and Jay Marsh (Bonsall, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: capturing, with an image sensor, at least one image of a head of a user, wherein the at least one image includes an image of an eye of the user; processing the at least one image to obtain position information for features of the head and eye of the user; and determining, based on the position information for the features of the head and eye of the user, at least one parameter of a...