US Patent Issued to Hamamatsu Photonics, Energetiq Technology on July 7 for "Optical coherence tomography system for subsurface inspection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,657, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan) and Energetiq Technology Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Optical coherence tomography system for subsurface inspection" was invented by Qingsong Wang (Lexington, Mass.), Shaival Vipul Buch (Watertown, Mass.) and Huiling Zhu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OCT system includes a broadband light source, and a beam splitter that splits the broadband light into a reference beam and an illumination beam. A reference mirror reflects the reference beam. Illumination optics passes the illumination beam and has a reflective surface with an optical p...