ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,799, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Automated quality evaluation of optical coherence tomography images" was invented by Justis P. Ehlers (Cleveland), Duriye Damla Sevgi (Cleveland), Sunil K. Srivastava (Cleveland), Jon Whitney (Cleveland) and Jordan Bell (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a quality of an OCT image. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions executable by a processor to evaluate the quality of the OCT image. The executable instructions include an imager i...