US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on March 18 for "Method for determining boundaries of a z-stack of images of an object, corresponding optical instrument and computer program therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,639, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Method for determining boundaries of a z-stack of images of an object, corresponding optical instrument and computer program therefor" was invented by Jose Miguel Serra Lleti (Wetzlar, Germany) and Tobias Hessler (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically determining boundaries of a z-stack of images of an object, the z-stack of the images acquired by imaging the object at different focal positions, is provided. The method includes generating a set of images of the object, each image being captured at a different...