Patents
Office of Technology Management at Urbana-Champaign
Patents & Disclosures
- Tearney GJ, Boppart SA, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope. Issued October 17, 2000. Patent # 6,134,003.
- Boppart SA, Tearney GJ, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Method and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments. Issued November 26, 2002. Patent # 6,485,413.
- Tearney GJ, Boppart SA, Bouma BE, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, Fujimoto JG. Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator. Issued December 31, 2002. Patent # 6,501,551.
- Pitris C, Boppart SA, Li XD, Brezinski ME, Swanson EA, McNamara E, Fujimoto JG. Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging. Issued May 13, 2003. Patent #6,564,087.
- Boppart SA, Marks DL, Suslick KS, Toublan FJJ. Optical contrast agents for optically modifying incident radiation. Issued April 3, 2007. Patent #7,198,777.
- Suslick KS, Toublan FJJ, Boppart SA, Marks DL. Surface modified protein microparticles. Issued May 15, 2007, Patent #7,217,410.
- Marks DL, Boppart SA. Volumetric endoscopic coherence microscopy using a coherent fiber bundle. Patent 7,450,243, November 11, 2008.
- Marks DL, Boppart SA. Distinguishing non-resonant four-wave-mixing noise in coherent Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman scattering. Issued September 8, 2009, Patent #7,586,618.
- Ralston TS, Marks DL, Carney PS, Boppart SA. Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy. Issued October 13, 2009, Patent #7,602,501.
- Boppart SA, Wei A. Multi-functional plasmon-resonant contrast agents for optical coherence tomography. Issued October 27, 2009, Patent #7,610,074.
- Boppart SA, Marks DL. Nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging. Issued October 13, 2009, Patent #7,602,501.
- Marks DL, Davis BJ, Boppart SA, Carney PS. Partially coherent illumination for inverse scattering full-field interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy. Issued January 5, 2010, Patent #7,643,155.
- Boppart SA, Xu C. Contrast enhanced spectroscopic optical coherence tomography. Issued May 25, 2010, Patent #7,725,169.
- Oldenburg AL, Boppart SA, Crecea V, Liang X. Magnetomotive optical coherence tomography. Issued July 6, 2010, Patent #7,751,057.
- Zysk AM, Adie SG, Leigh MS, Armstrong JJ, Sampson DD, Boppart SA. Method and apparatus for measurement of optical properties in tissue. U.S. Patent 7,787,129, August 31, 2010; Australian Patent 2007211061, September 18, 2013.
- Boppart SA, Xi C. Device and method for imaging the ear using optical coherence tomography. Patent 8,115,934, February 14, 2012.
- Marks DL, Boppart SA, Zysk AM, Schlachter SC. Group refractive index reconstruction with broadband interferometric confocal microscopy. Patent 8,218,152, July 10, 2012.
- Marks DL, Geddes JB, Boppart SA. Matched pulse stimulated Raman scattering. Patent 8,300,228, October 30, 2012.
- Tu H, Boppart SA. Optical frequency up-conversion of infrared laser pulses into visible pulses by Cherenkov radiation and intermodal four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fibers. Patent 8,305,682, November 6, 2012.
- Boppart SA. Apparatus and method for measuring a characteristic of a composition reactive to a magnetic field. Patent 8,447,373, May 21, 2013.
- Tu H, Boppart SA. Coherent fiber continuum source from transform-limited pulse compression in all-normal dispersion fiber. Patent 8,526,772, September 3, 2013.
- Boppart SA, Jung W. Apparatus for biomedical imaging. Patent 8,594,757, November 26, 2013.
- Boppart SA, Nguyen FT, Zysk AM. Low-coherence interferometry and optical coherence tomography for image-guided surgical treatment of solid tumors. Patent 8,983,580, March 17, 2015.
- Boppart SA, Zhao Y. Optical parametric amplification of weak signals for imaging biological tissue. Patent #9,506,858, November 29, 2016.
- Tu H, Boppart SA. Bright few-cycle visible fiber source using 1550-nm converted Cherenkov radiation with Gaussian-like spectra. Patent 9,300,107, March 29, 2016.