US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 16 for "Speckle-based image distortion correction for laser scanning microscopy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,972, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Speckle-based image distortion correction for laser scanning microscopy" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jiheun Ryu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of correcting distortion of an image, including: analyzing, by a processor, an image segment of the image to identify a speckle artifact, the image segment being obtained from a scanning imaging device; determining, by the processor, an aspect ratio of a shape of the speckle artifact; determining, by the processor, a correction factor for the shape of the spe...