US Patent Issued on May 13 for "High-resolution handheld OCT imaging system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,133, issued on May 13.

"High-resolution handheld OCT imaging system" was invented by Shuixing Zhang (Guangdong, China), Wei Li (Guangdong, China), Jie Tian (Guangdong, China), Lin Yin (Guangdong, China) and Zhiyun Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-resolution handheld OCT imaging system related to the optical imaging field solves the issues of handheld OCT systems with low resolution and the inability to measure the skin's stratum corneum thickness accurately. Through adopting the visible wavelength band of supercontinuum laser as the light source, mainly applying reflectors instead of lenses in the OCT syst...