ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,097, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NIDEK Co. LTD. (Gamagori, Japan).
"OCT device" was invented by Ai Takaya (Gamagori, Japan), Norimasa Satake (Gamagori, Japan) and Yukihiro Higuchi (Gamagori, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OCT device includes an OCT optical system and a controller that also serves as an image processor. The controller acquires the OCT data of the fundus by processing the spectral interference signal output from the OCT optical system. In addition, the controller adjusts the position of the high accuracy region, which is the depth region where relatively high accuracy OCT data is obtained, by controllin...