US Patent Issued on July 1 for "Unscanned optical inspection system using a micro camera array" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,879, issued on July 1.

"Unscanned optical inspection system using a micro camera array" was invented by Mark Harfouche (Pasadena, Calif.), Roarke Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.) and Robert Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement of one or more micro cameras are used in conjunction with computer controlled illumination to create a high-throughput microscope able to operate without the need of expensive scanning stages. A single unit contains a plurality of sensors, lenses tiled in such a way to cover a significant fraction of the desired field of view in a digital single acquisition. Mechanical stages and patte...