ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,563, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Guidance method, non-transitory storage medium, imaging device, information processing device, and microscope device" was invented by Akitsugu Kudo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance method guides a camera held by a holder holding the camera that captures a field of view of a microscope through an eyepiece lens of the microscope to an appropriate holding position with respect to an optical axis of the eyepiece lens. The guidance method comprises a computer executes: acquiring, from the camera, an image of the field of view captured by the camera...