US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Hybrid spiral scan patterns" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,475, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Hybrid spiral scan patterns" was invented by Al-Hafeez Z. Dhalla (Durham, N.C.), Franklin Wei (Durham, N.C.), Anthony N. Kuo (Durham, N.C.), Jianwei D. Li (Durham, N.C.) and Joseph A. Izatt (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for performing a hybrid spiral scan pattern includes scanner, a scanner controller in communication with the scanner to direct the scanner to perform a hybrid spiral scan pattern. When the hybrid spiral scan pattern includes a constant angular velocity (CAV) spiral scan pattern, a constant linear velocity (CLV) sp...