ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,563, issued on July 22, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Tomographic reconstruction apparatus and removing diffraction effects in a tomographic image" was invented by Zachary Howard Levine (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Removing diffraction effects in a tomographic image includes: obtaining an empirical image of a sample; producing an initial wave at a radiation source; forward propagating the initial wave from the radiation source toward a detector; receiving by a sample the initial wave; forward propagating the initial wave ...