ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,256, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for multi-surface profile estimation via optical coherence tomography" was invented by Joshua Rapp (Somerville, Mass.), Hassan Mansour (Cambridge, Mass.), Petros Boufounos (Winchester, Mass.), Toshiaki Koike Akino (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kieran Parsons (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system comprises an interferometer configured to interfere a test beam reflected from a specimen with a reference beam to produce an interference pattern. The OCT system also...