ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,479, issued on July 28, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC INC. (Dublin, Calif.).

"System and method of a process for robust macular thickness analysis using low-cost line-field optical coherence tomography (OCT)" was invented by Homayoun Bagherinia (Oakland, Calif.), Conor Leahy (Dublin, Calif.) and Simon Bello (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating a composite retinal thickness map of an eye, including collecting, by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device, a set of a plurality of optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume scans of the eye. At least one set of the plurality of OCT ...