ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,958, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Heidelberg Engineering GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).
"Interferometer for carrying out an optical coherence tomography" was invented by Andreas Fritz-Bouteleux (Lubeck, Germany), Lisa Kutzner (Berlin) and Michael Stender (Lubeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an interferometer for carrying out an optical coherence tomography. The interferometer has at least one first part (13) and a second part (14) which are arranged or can be arranged in a spatially separated manner, wherein the two parts (13, 14) are optically connected together by at least one optical fiber (8)....