US Patent Issued to OPTOS on March 25 for "Processing of multimodal retinal images" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,990, issued on March 25, was assigned to OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

"Processing of multimodal retinal images" was invented by Alan Duncan Fleming (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of processing image data defining a fundus image of a retina to include supplementary information on a designated feature in the fundus image, comprising: designating (S10) a feature in the fundus image; receiving (S20) OCT data of a C-scan of the retina; selecting (S30) a subset of the OCT data representing a volumetric image of a part of the retina at a location on the retina corresponding ...