ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,032, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Pramana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for rescan workflow management in automated scanning systems" was invented by Pavani Pallavi Pelluru (Pocharam, India), Viral Pandey (Cambridge, Mass.), Raghubansh Bahadur Gupta (Bangalore, India), Ramanjaneya Reddy (Bengaluru, India) and Sarvesh Kumar Thapa (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for rescan workflow management in automated scanning systems are disclosed. The apparatus includes a scanning system configured to initiate a scanning and rescanning operation for at least a slide, at least a proce...