ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,971, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).
"Flow measurement through OCT" was invented by Justin Akira Blaber (Lowell, Mass.), Ajay Gopinath (Bedford, Mass.) and Wei Chiu (Stony Brook, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining a mean transit time of a bolus within the blood vessel by passing the bolus through the blood vessel while an intravascular imaging probe is held stationary. The probe may collect a plurality of image frames as the bolus passes the probe. The cross-sectional area of the bolus within the images frames may be deter...