US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 18 for "Spectral imaging platform for infectious disease diagnosis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,344, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Spectral imaging platform for infectious disease diagnosis" was invented by Hongquan Li (Stanford, Calif.) and Manu Prakash (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-cost and reconfigurable autonomous microscopy platform is provided capable of automated slide scanning and correlated brightfield and fluorescence imaging. Method of spectral imaging using the platform with applications including infectious disease diagnosis is also provided herein."

The patent was filed on May 22, 2020, under Application...