US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPCON on Nov. 4 for "Medical diagnostic apparatus and method for evaluation of pathological conditions using 3D optical coherence tomography data and images" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,343, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan) and TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical diagnostic apparatus and method for evaluation of pathological conditions using 3D optical coherence tomography data and images" was invented by Kohji Nishida (Suita, Japan), Kazuichi Maruyama (Suita, Japan), Atsuya Miki (Suita, Japan), Ryo Kawasaki (Suita, Japan), Hirokazu Sakaguchi (Suita, Japan), Chikako Hara (Suita, Japan), Song Mei (Warren, N.J.), Yasufumi Fukuma (Wako, Japan), Zaixing Mao (Tokyo), Zhenguo Wang (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Kinpui Chan (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical diagnostic apparatus inc...