US Patent Issued to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Coherence Consulting on Dec. 23 for "Laser-speckle contrast imaging system and method" (Wisconsin, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,071, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc. (Milwaukee) and Coherence Consulting LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Laser-speckle contrast imaging system and method" was invented by Dwani Patel (Milwaukee), Al Hafeez Dhalla (Durham, N.C.), Christian B. Viehland (Durham, N.C.) and Daniel M. Lipinski (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser-Speckle Contrast imaging apparatus configured to assess and quantify motion associated with an object and, in a specific case of an eye-retinal vascular anatomy and hemodynamics and generate substantially contrast-free maps of retinal blood flow over a wide field-of-view a...