US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on March 25 for "Re-imaging microscopy with micro-camera array" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,541, issued on March 25, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Re-imaging microscopy with micro-camera array" was invented by Xi Yang (Durham, N.C.), Pavan Chandra Konda (Durham, N.C.) and Roarke Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscopy system includes a primary lens and a planar array of micro-cameras. Each micro-camera of the planar array of micro-cameras has a field of view at an intermediate plane that overlaps at least one other micro-camera's field of view at the intermediate plane in a direction. The primary lens is disposed in a light path between the array of micro-cameras and a target...