US Patent Issued to ACUCELA on Feb. 25 for "Scan pattern and signal processing for optical coherence tomography" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,810, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ACUCELA INC. (Seattle).

"Scan pattern and signal processing for optical coherence tomography" was invented by Ryo Kubota (Seattle), Stephan Wyder (Bern, Switzerland), Philip M. Buscemi (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Matthias Pfister (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland) and Alexander Holzer (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OCT system for measuring a retina as part of an eye health monitoring and diagnosis system. The OCT system includes an OCT interferometer, where the interferometer comprises a light source or measurement beam and a scanner for moving the beam on the retina of a patient's...