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2024: Article: Relative foveal dark adaptation: a potential method for assessing macular health.  Kane, JS, Gaspich, M, Gold, A, Pichardo, H, Kane, SA.

The Royal College of Ophthalmologists.  Eye; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-024-03201-2

This method of dark adaptation is intuitive, repeatable, and unaffected by testing conditions. Testing times are brief, requiring only an iPhone screen positioned at reading distance. Relative foveal dark adaptation may be a useful tool to assess macular health.

• 2021: IMAGINE, VISION TESTING  WHILE KIDS PLAY VIDEO GAMES,
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• Appearing in the Royal College of Ophthalmologist's Nature/Eye Journal in open access (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-021-01862-x.pdf) is the article, "Screening Children using a Mobile Graphic Device", authored by Steven A. Kane, Mark Gaspich, Julia Kane, Sarah A. Weitzman, and Albert Hofeldt from Columbia University and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mt. Sinai.  According to Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Steven A. Kane, MD, PhD, brightness sense balance, acuity, and color vision can be measured in children as young as 3 years old solely through playing a fun and easy game on a mobile device. The DiagnosticGame app detects "Lazy Eye" by two methods, visual acuity, and brightness sense balance. This is the first report of measuring brightness sense balance in children.

• 2021: Allowance US Patent: Binocular Amblyopic Therapy; 11,007,109

• 2021: Allowance US Patent: Monocular and Binocular Relative Focal Photostress; 11,026,573

• 2021: Rapid Retinal Functional Testing  https://aes.amegroups.com/article/view/6313/html

• 2021: Automated vision screening of children using a mobile graphic device, PrePrint. :https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.29.21255800v1

• Press Release 5/5/2020: Apple app Tests Vision Remotely at Home on iPad/iPhone.  Reintroducting Brightness-sense to measure vision loss in Glaucoma.

• Press Release 12/27/2018:  Apple app Detects Lazy-Eye in School Children.  “Automated Brightness Sense Screening for Amblyopia” by Dr. Steven Kane presented at American Academy of Pediatric 2018 Meeting.

• Automated Brightness Sense Screening for Amblyopia, Steven Kane, MD, PhD, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University, New York City.  American Academy of Pediatrics 2018 annual meeting, SOATT section Poster.

• AMA Optics’ RAM helps select appropriate IOL. See The case for using a presbyopia-correcting IOL in only one eye: Ocular Surgery News U.S. Edition, April 25, 2018by Bret L. Fisher, MD

• VoyageMIA interview: MEET ALBERT HOFELDT OF AMA OPTICS

• Pentalog builds app for AMA Optics, A Success Story

• Press Release: Conquering Amblyopia with a New App on Apple Store

• U.S. Trademarks issued, July 18, 2017: DiagnosticGame®, NeuroColor®, and Amblyometer®.

• American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Chicago 2017: AMA Optics, Inc Booth 1166 (Sept 16-19)

• American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, New Orleans 2017: AMA Optics, Inc Booth 5340 (Nov 11-14, 2017)

• DiagnosticGame app released June 2017, Apple Store

• Award...Most Innovative Eye Care Diagnostics Manufacturer 2016: Small Cap Awards, Corp America

• US Patent 20130100400:  Amblyometer for balancing bridging rivalrous binocular vision 

• US Patent 9089257: Binary Choice Self-Testing

• Hofeldt Bridge Trademark, 2016, Serial# 8682905

• AMA Optics, Inc. Designed iPad Program:  Ryan Gise, MD and Steven Kane, MD, PhD Presented Paper at ARVO 2016: Program Number 3819;  Detection of Amblyopia in Young Children via Retinal Rivalry Using a Video Game Styled Interface on a Tablet Device