US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 4 for "Optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus and method for controlling an optical coherence tomography apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,763, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus and method for controlling an optical coherence tomography apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical interference tomographic imaging device is provided with: a wavelength sweeping laser light source; a branching unit that branches light emitted from the wavelength sweeping laser light source to object light and reference light; an irradiation unit that scans a predetermined range by irradiating different positions on the surface of the measurement target object with the object lig...