US Patent Issued to TOPCON on Feb. 10 for "Image quality improvement methods for optical coherence tomography" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,121, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image quality improvement methods for optical coherence tomography" was invented by Zaixing Mao (Edgewater, N.J.), Zhenguo Wang (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Kinpui Chan (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ophthalmological images generated by coherent imaging modalities have multiple types of noise, including random noise caused by the imaging system and speckle noise caused by turbid objects such as living tissues. These noises can occur at different levels in different locations. A noise-reduction method and system of the present disclosure thus relates to applying ...