ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,440, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Microscope system, superimposing unit, and operation method" was invented by Yoshihiro Toigawa (Nagano, Japan), Sho Makita (Nagano, Japan), Yosuke Tani (Nagano, Japan) and Yuki Arai (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope system includes: a microscope optical system that includes an ocular lens and forms an optical image of a sample on an object side of the ocular lens; a processor that generates auxiliary image data based on information regarding a target slide selected from among a plurality of ordered slides included in a slide set; and a supe...