US Patent Issued to TOPCON on Aug. 18 for "Automatically identifying regions of interest of an object from horizontal images using a machine learning guided imaging system" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,753, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatically identifying regions of interest of an object from horizontal images using a machine learning guided imaging system" was invented by Zaixing Mao (Harrison, N.J.), Zhenguo Wang (Ridgewood, N.J.), Kinpui Chan (Ridgewood, N.J.), Jonathan Liu (New York) and Jongsik Kim (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal imaging system and method is capable of taking fundus images, automatically identifying regions of interest (ROIs) of the eye from the fundus images, and performing OCT imaging in the identified ROIs, where the OCT images can provide clini...