US Patent Issued to OPTOS on Dec. 2 for "Band-pass sampling in a swept source optical coherence tomography imaging system to extend imaging range" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,072, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

"Band-pass sampling in a swept source optical coherence tomography imaging system to extend imaging range" was invented by Miguel Angel Preciado (Dunfermline, Great Britain) and Lijo Varughese Chacko (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swept-source OCT imaging system for imaging a region of an object, comprising: a swept light source which generates a beam of varying wavelength; a scanning element which scans the beam across the object; an interferometer which generates interference light by combining light scattered by the object (...