ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,167, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE Ltd. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for illuminating and imaging objects" was invented by Mingsong Chen (Singapore), Benyong Shi (Singapore), Tiong Han Toh (Singapore) and Huei Steven Yeo (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system includes a surface configured to have an imaging target placed thereon, a light source, a beam splitter and at least a first mirror. The beam splitter is configured to split the beam of light from the light source and the first mirror is configured to reflect a first beam from the beam splitter onto the surface w...