US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 4 for "Microscope image capturing methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,055, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Microscope image capturing methods" was invented by Adam Ezra Cohen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Vicente Jose Parot (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to spatially modulating the light source used in microscopy. In some cases, a light source projects a sequence of two-dimensional spatial patterns onto a sample using a spatial light modulator. In some cases, the spatial patterns are based on Hadamard matrices. In some cases, an imaging device captures frames of image data in response to light emitt...