ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,872, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SCOPIO LABS LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Compressed acquisition of microscopic images" was invented by Ben Leshem (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eran Small (Yahud, Israel), Itai Hayut (Tel Aviv, Israel), Erez Na'Aman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Eyal Ben-Bassat (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope for computational imaging may include an illumination source configured to illuminate a sample with a plurality of wavelengths, an image sensor, an objective lens to image the sample onto the image sensor, and a processor operatively coupled to the illumination assembly and the image sensor. The pr...