ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,994, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).

"Optical fiber-typed spectral confocal coherence tomography optical system and application thereof" was invented by Shengli Xie (Guangdong, China), Bo Dong (Guangdong, China), Zhun Wang (Guangdong, China), Zihao Ni (Guangdong, China), Yulei Bai (Guangdong, China) and Victor Fedorovich Kuzin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an optical fiber-typed spectral confocal coherence tomography optical system and an application thereof. The system includes an optical fiber coupler, a broadband light source, a ref...