US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec, Carl Zeiss Meditec on Feb. 17 for "Bruch's membrane segmentation in OCT volume" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,240, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. (Dublin, Calif.) and Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Bruch's membrane segmentation in OCT volume" was invented by Homayoun Bagherinia (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retinal layer segmentation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) data is improved by using OCT angiography (OCTA) data to enhance a target retinal layer within the OCT data that may lack sufficient definition for segmentation. The OCT data is enhanced based on a mixture of the OCT data and OCTA data, such that contrast in the OCT data is enhanced in areas where OCT and OCTA data are d...