US Patent Issued to The Rockfeller University on Sept. 16 for "Volumetric imaging techniques" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,731, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Rockfeller University (New York).

"Volumetric imaging techniques" was invented by Alipasha Vaziri (New York), Tobias Noebauer (New York) and Yuanlong Zhang (Qingyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volumetric imaging system implements obtaining raw image data of a sample volume of a sample material, the raw image data comprising light field data of the sample volume acquired using a microlens array disposed in front of a camera; and analyzing the raw image data using an image analysis pipeline configured to localize the objects of interest in the raw image data to obtain classifie...