US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on March 18 for "Methods and apparatus providing calibration of background illumination for sample and/or sample container characterization" (German, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,533, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus providing calibration of background illumination for sample and/or sample container characterization" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Patrick Wissmann (Munich), Ludwig Listl (Munich), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.), Ramkrishna Jangale (Pune, India), Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat (Princeton, N.J.), Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibration method is provided including identifying the imaging area on each lig...