ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,910, issued on May 26, was assigned to Acoustic Insight B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Method and system for tracking of acoustic vibrations using optical coherence tomography" was invented by Haaije Rimmer De Vries (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for tracking of acoustic vibrations of a structural element of the middle or inner ear with optical coherence tomography using an acoustic source configured to generate an acoustic stimulus to induce vibrations of the structural element; an OCT device configured to measure a measurement signal comprising vibrographic information representative for the vibrat...