US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for peripheral retinal optical coherence tomography" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,102, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for peripheral retinal optical coherence tomography" was invented by Frank Brodie (Durham, N.C.), Ryan McNabb (Durham, N.C.), Cynthia Toth (Durham, N.C.) and Joseph Izatt (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peripheral retinal OCT can be used to generate peripheral retinal OCT images allowing for the peripheral retina to be viewed. A peripheral retinal vision system can determine that a set of fiducial markers is in a field-of-view of at least one camera and record positional data comprising a contact lens position and angle with resp...