ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,934, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Image acquisition system and image acquisition method" was invented by Yuichi Toyoda (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition system includes a cassette mounting unit that holds slide glasses in a plurality of stages, a cassette having an identification code imparted thereto being mounted in the cassette mounting unit, an identification code reading unit that reads an identification code from the cassette, an image acquisition unit that acquires image data of a sample held on the slide glass, and a control computer that ...