US Patent Issued to Optos on Nov. 3 for "Non-confocal point-scan fourier-domain optical coherence tomography imaging system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,414, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Optos plc (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

"Non-confocal point-scan fourier-domain optical coherence tomography imaging system" was invented by Miguel Angel Preciado (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-confocal point-scan Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography, OCT, imaging system, comprising: a scanning system arranged to perform a two-dimensional point scan of a light beam across an imaging target, and collect light scattered by the imaging target; a light detector arranged to generate a detection signal based on an interference between a reference light and the l...