US Patent Issued to PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY on May 27 for "Volumetric multi-modal microscopy methods and systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,698, issued on May 27, was assigned to PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY (Vancouver, Canada).

"Volumetric multi-modal microscopy methods and systems" was invented by Haishan Zeng (Vancouver, Canada), Zhenguo Wu (Vancouver, Canada), Harvey Lui (Vancouver, Canada) and Yunxian Tian (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for obtaining 3D imaging of tissue involve scanning a focused laser beam in xz planes to obtain a set of xz plane images spaced apart in a y direction. The xz plane images are processed to correct distortions and motions and combined to provide 3D image data. Surface flatting is option...