US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on June 24 for "Systems and methods for surface profile estimation via optical coherence tomography" (Massachusetts, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,785, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for surface profile estimation via optical coherence tomography" was invented by Joshua Rapp (Somerville, Mass.), Hassan Mansour (Boston, Ala.), Petros Boufounos (Winchester, Ala.), Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.), Toshiaki Koike Akino (Cambridge, Ala.) and Kieran Parsons (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system comprises an interferometer configured to split incident light into a reference beam and a test beam, and to interfere the test beam reflected fro...