US Patent Issued to Northwestern University, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 1 for "System and methods of visible light swept-source optical coherence tomography" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,319, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"System and methods of visible light swept-source optical coherence tomography" was invented by Hao F. Zhang (Evanston, Ill.), Cheng Sun (Evanston, Ill.), Tingwei Zhang (Evanston, Ill.), Roman V. Kuranov (Evanston, Ill.) and David Andrew Miller (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a new visible light swept source that enables ultrafast visible light OCT to operate at a faster rate to reduce the motion artifacts and increase the...