ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,835, issued on May 27, was assigned to ARACELI BIOSCIENCES INC. (Tigard, Ore.).

"Method and systems for autofocusing" was invented by Marguerite Vantangoli Policelli (Carver, Mass.), Marshall Anderson (Portland, Ore.), David Tasker (Beaverton, Ore.) and Tyler Wilson (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided autofocusing an imaging system. In one example, a method includes identifying a target focal plane of a field-of-view (FOV) of each objective of the imaging system, the imaging system including two or more objectives, adjusting a vertical position of each objective relative to the target foca...