US Patent Issued to ACUCELA on Aug. 26 for "Miniaturized mobile, low cost optical coherence tomography system for home based ophthalmic applications" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,639, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ACUCELA INC. (Seattle).

"Miniaturized mobile, low cost optical coherence tomography system for home based ophthalmic applications" was invented by Lukas Scheibler (Telluride, Colo.), Matthias Pfister (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland), Urban Schnell (Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland), Stefan Troller (Sissach, Switzerland) and Ryo Kubota (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved optical coherence tomography systems and methods to measure thickness of the retina are presented. The systems may be compact, handheld, provide in-home monitoring, allow the patient to measure himself or herself, and be ro...