US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC on Sept. 22 for "Optical coherence tomograph" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,629, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical coherence tomograph" was invented by Noritaka Matsubara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical coherence tomograph includes: a light source configured to output light; a branching portion configured to separate the light from the light source into irradiation light and reference light; a reference optical system configured to transmit the reference light from the branching portion; an irradiation optical system configured to transmit the irradiation light from the branching portion so that an object is irradiated therewith, and transmit r...