ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,324, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Active quadrature demodulation for subsampled/circular ranging optical coherence tomography" was invented by Benjamin J. Vakoc (Arlington, Mass.) and Norman Lippok (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: scanning a sample over a period of time using an electro-magnetic radiation source, the period of time including a first time period and a second time period, a sample portion of the electro-magnetic radiation source being directed to the sample in a sample arm of an optical interferometric system, and a reference portion of the ...