US Patent Issued to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, CARL ZEISS MEDITEC on Feb. 3 for "Ophthalmic imaging with K-mirror scanning, efficient interferometry, and pupil alignment through spatial frequency analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,033, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC INC. (Dublin, Calif.) and CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG (Jena, Germany).

"Ophthalmic imaging with K-mirror scanning, efficient interferometry, and pupil alignment through spatial frequency analysis" was invented by Yingjian Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Yuan Liu (Dublin, Calif.), Jochen Straub (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mahsa Darvishzadeh Varcheie (Fremont, Calif.) and Conor Leahy (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for providing a low-cost ophthalmic imaging system, such an OCT or fundus imagers are presented. Cost is reduced by using a K-minor as a scanning compone...