ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,451, issued on April 21, was assigned to National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Low coherence interferometer imaging system" was invented by Ting-Hao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsiang-Chieh Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tai-Ang Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low coherence interferometer imaging system includes an imaging engine generating a reference beam and an object beam, a first beam splitting element, reference ends, a sample end, and optical imaging modules arranged at the sample end. The first beam splitting element is disposed on an optical path of the reference beam and generates sub-reference beams aft...