US Patent Issued to BLACK FUR BIOMEDICAL on May 5 for "Real-time tracheal mapping using optical coherence tomography and artificial intelligence" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,371, issued on May 5, was assigned to BLACK FUR BIOMEDICAL LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Real-time tracheal mapping using optical coherence tomography and artificial intelligence" was invented by Ryan Redford (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for real-time mapping of a target hollow internal body structure each as the trachea using ultrafast swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and artificial intelligence (AI). The system includes an SS-OCT imaging device that captures high-resolution 3D images of the trachea at very high frame rates, and an AI module that analyzes and interprets th...