US Patent Issued to Alcon on Nov. 11 for "Optical coherence tomography system with an extended depth range" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,210, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Optical coherence tomography system with an extended depth range" was invented by Utkarsh Sharma (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, an OCT system sends a sample beam to a sample (e.g., an eye) along a sample path divided into multiple sample path ranges. The system sends a reference beam to a reference arm system with multiple reference arms, where each reference arm corresponds to a sample path range. Each arm has a specific dispersion level with a corresponding dispersion compensation parameter set designed to address the s...