US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Imaging on Jan. 20 for "Real-time focusing in a slide-scanning system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,072, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).

"Real-time focusing in a slide-scanning system" was invented by Allen H. Olson (Vista, Calif.), Yunlu Zou (Vista, Calif.), Bharat Annaldas (Vista, Calif.) and Leng-Chun Chen (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time focusing in a slide-scanning system. In an embodiment, focus points are added to an initialized focus map while acquiring a plurality of image stripes of a sample on a glass slide. For each image stripe, a plurality of frames, collectively representing the image stripe, may be acquired using both an imaging line-scan camer...