ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,586, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Techniques for sensorless adaptive optics optical coherence tomography" was invented by Yifan Jian (Portland, Ore.) and Acner Camino Benech (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for adaptive optics (AO)-optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA). Embodiments include techniques to generate one or more volumetric and/or depth-resolved figures of merit to guide optimization of ocular aberrations in sensorless AO-OCT and/or AO-OCTA. The one or more figures of merit may be generated in r...