ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,518, issued on June 17, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Auditory ability test device and method based on optical coherence tomography" was invented by Jeehyun Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Pilun Kim (Daegu, South Korea) and Mansik Jeon (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auditory ability test device based on optical coherence tomography of the present disclosure includes: a main console including a light source, a light classifier to classify light emitted from the light source into reference light and measurement light, a coherence signal col...