US Patent Issued to Huron Technologies International on May 13 for "Scanning microscope using a mosaic scan filter" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,486, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huron Technologies International Inc. (St. Jacobs, Canada).

"Scanning microscope using a mosaic scan filter" was invented by Arthur Edward Dixon (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mosaic scan filter array has a plurality of identical tiles, each tile have n rows and m columns where n is equal to a greater than 1 and m is equal to a greater than 2. One row of tiles extends a width of a detector array and constitutes a base pattern. The base pattern is repeated M times and each repetition is laterally offset in one direction by one pixel width. The base pattern and laterally offset...