ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,145, issued on April 22, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).
"Subpixel line scanning" was invented by Yunlu Zou (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide scanning device comprises a plurality of line sensors (112a, 112b, 112c), each comprising a plurality of pixel sensors. Each line sensor is offset from an adjacent line sensor by a fraction of a length of each pixel sensor, and generates a line image of the same field of view at its respective offset. For each of a plurality of positions on a sample, a processor combines the line images of the same field of view, generated by the plurality of line s...