ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,642, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Inscopix Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-modal microscopic imaging" was invented by Koen Visscher (Tucson, Ariz.), Pei Sabrina Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shay Neufeld (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter configured to be optically coupled to a plurality of microscopes and having (i) a first microscope interface configured to optically couple a first microscope system to an optical element that is in optical communication with an optical probe to provide first imaging data of a sample, and (ii) a second microscope interface configured to optically couple a se...