US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Particulate matter imaging, identification, and analysis systems and methods" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,266, issued on April 29.

"Particulate matter imaging, identification, and analysis systems and methods" was invented by Nathan Allan (Mapleton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging systems and methods for capturing an image of a subject. The imaging system includes an imaging device that captures images of the subject, a focus mechanism for changing a focal length of the imaging device, and a controller that processes images captured by the imaging device. The imaging device captures a plurality of images of the subject at each of a plurality of focal lengths. The controller generates a sharpness map for each of the plurality o...