US Patent Issued to ACUCELA on May 6 for "Miniaturized mobile, low cost optical coherence tomography system for home based ophthalmic applications" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,317, issued on May 6, was assigned to ACUCELA INC. (Seattle).

"Miniaturized mobile, low cost optical coherence tomography system for home based ophthalmic applications" was invented by Christian Oggenfuss (Lyss, Switzerland), Karim Haroud (Villeneuve, Switzerland), Lukas Scheibler (Telluride, Colo.), Matthias Pfister (Liebefeld-Bern, Switzerland), Urban Schnell (Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland), Stefan Troller (Sissach, Switzerland), Ryo Kubota (Seattle) and Philip M. Buscemi (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).

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...