ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,875, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Slide-free histological imaging method and system" was invented by Tsz Wai Wong (Hong Kong), Yan Zhang (Hong Kong), Lei Kang (Hong Kong), Xiufeng Li (Hong Kong) and Hei Man Wong (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (530), system (100, 201) and computer readable medium for generating a slide-free histological image in the form of a reconstructed ultraviolet-based autofluorescence microscopy (UV-AutoM) image from a plurality of speckle-illuminated low-resolution images. A computer implemented method...