US Patent Issued to ALCON on April 21 for "Automatic segmentation of anterior segment of an eye in optical coherence tomography images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,811, issued on April 21, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Automatic segmentation of anterior segment of an eye in optical coherence tomography images" was invented by Muhammad K. Al-Qaisi (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Kongfeng Berger (San Jose, Calif.) and Parisa Rabbani (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques for automatically segmenting anterior segment of an eye in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. A method includes receiving an OCT image of an eye; cropping, based on one or more structures of the eye in the OCT image, the OCT image of the eye into one or more su...