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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2018
Applicant:

Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Altshuler, Cambridge, MA (US);

Badr Elmaanaoui, Belmont, MA (US);

Seiji Takeuchi, Newton, MA (US);

Assignee:

Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/07 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 3/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/00126 (2013.01); A61B 1/063 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/7203 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); G02B 6/4206 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 3/1225 (2013.01); A61B 8/4461 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0443 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more devices, systems, methods and storage mediums for characterizing, examining and/or diagnosing, and/or measuring viscosity of, a sample or object are provided herein. Such information may be obtained in application(s) using a system that includes a rotary junction, an elongated extender or at least one repeater attached to the rotary junction and a rotatable probe attached to the elongated extender and/or the at least one repeater. Examples of such applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments. The extenders and/or repeaters may be used with one or more forms of imaging, such as, but not limited to, Spectrally Encoded Endoscopy ('SEE') and Optical Coherence Tomography ('OCT').


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