ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,214, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus and information processing apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an illumination device that has a plurality of light sources which irradiate an observation target with illumination light beams at different irradiation angles; an imaging sensor that captures an interference fringe image generated by the observation target irradiated with the illumination light beams to generate image data; a height adjustment mechanism that enables a height of the illumination device w...