US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on Oct. 14 for "Bond-selective intensity diffraction tomography and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,766, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Bond-selective intensity diffraction tomography and uses thereof" was invented by Ji-Xin Cheng (Newton, Mass.), Jian Zhao (Boston), Lei Tian (Newton, Mass.) and Alex Matlock (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example microscope includes a pump laser for providing a first illumination to a sample. A laser array provides a second illumination to the sample. The laser array may include a plurality of laser elements, each providing oblique illuminations to the sample. An illumination collecting source collects the first illumination and the s...