US Patent Issued to Alentic Microscience on Aug. 12 for "Detecting and using light representative of a sample" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,957, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Alentic Microscience Inc. (Halifax, Canada).

"Detecting and using light representative of a sample" was invented by Alan Marc Fine (Prospect, Canada), Hershel Macaulay (Cambridge, Mass.) and Laurent Kreplak (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes light sensitive locations that are separately sensitive to light received at a surface with respect to a portion of a sample associated with the surface, the light sensitive locations having a resolution of 5 microns or smaller. There is a device to associate the portion of the sample with the surface. The imaging dev...