ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,149, issued on April 22.
"Multiple camera microscope imaging with patterned illumination" was invented by Roarke Horstmeyer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Horstmeyer (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mark Harfouche (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array of more than one digital micro-camera, along with the use of patterned illumination and a digital post-processing operation, jointly create a multi-camera patterned illumination (MCPI) microscope. Each micro-camera includes its own unique lens system and detector. The field-over-view of each micro-camera unit at least partially overlaps with the field-of-view of one or more other...