ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,939, issued on July 8, was assigned to OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline, Great Britain).
"Optical system, optical delay line and OCT apparatus" was invented by Rainer Heidemann (Dunfermline, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system, capable to admit a light beam, the optical system comprising: a plurality of reflectors configured to reflect the light beam, wherein each of the reflectors is configured to reflect an incident light beam such that the path of the incident light beam and the path of the reflected light beam are parallel to each other. Each of the reflectors has a reflection center axis positioned centrally betw...