ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,437, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ARACELI BIOSCIENCES INC. (Tigard, Ore.).

"High throughput microscope assembly" was invented by Marguerite Vantangoli Policelli (Carver, Mass.), Marshall Anderson (Portland, Ore.), Tyler Wilson (Beaverton, Ore.) and Jeffrey Harris (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a microscope assembly. In one example, the microscope assembly include an objective arranged at a top of a plate and aligned with a first side of the plate and a tube lens positioned below the objective along the first side of the plate and spaced away from the objective. The assembly ...