US Patent Issued to Oregon Health & Science University on March 18 for "Systems and methods for automated widefield optical coherence tomography angiography" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,160, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for automated widefield optical coherence tomography angiography" was invented by David Huang (Portland, Ore.), Gangjun Liu (Portland, Ore.) and Yali Jia (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for generating wide-field optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images. In embodiments, multiple OCTA scans of a sample are automatically acquired at overlapping locations. The systems and methods include functionality to adaptively control the scanning procedure such that eye bl...