US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on July 8 for "Smartphone-based OCT systems and methods" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,622, issued on July 8, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Smartphone-based OCT systems and methods" was invented by Audrey K. Bowden (Nashville, Tenn.) and Joseph D. Malone (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smartphone-integrated OCT system to leverage the built-in components of smartphones for detection and processing, and/or display of OCT data. The smartphone-integrated optical coherence tomography system includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, a smartphone, and a spectrometer configuration of optical components coupled to the optical coherence tomography system and the smartph...