US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Feb. 18 for "OCT-based retinal artery/vein classification" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,947, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"OCT-based retinal artery/vein classification" was invented by Kenneth Bailey Freund (New York), Xiaoyu Xu (Guangzhou, China) and Mary K. Durbin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical coherence tomography (OCT) unit provides a mechanism/method for automatic artery and vein identification. The method may be embodied by specialized algorithm or by a machine learning model, such as a support vector machine or neural network. The present method may identify a vascular configuration that forms a vortex structure in the deep capillary plexus...