ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,449, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Method of calibrating optical coherence tomography apparatus to measure depth" was invented by Rodrigo De Oliveira Franca (Winnipeg, Canada), Sherif Abdel Hamid Shawky Sherif (Winnipeg, Canada) and Akeem Abiodun Azeez (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating an apparatus configured to perform optical coherence tomography to measure depth of an article of a prescribed type comprises (a) using an existing measurement system configured to measure depth, measuring a sample of the article to obtain reference depth measurem...