ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,668, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Laser scanning microscope, image processing apparatus, and method of operating laser scanning microscope" was invented by Shingo Suzuki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanning microscope includes a scanner that scans a sample with laser light; a detector having a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM); and a processor that executes image processing of removing dark count noise based on an appearance frequency of the dark count noise in the SiPM on a scanned image."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/202,720.

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