ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,785, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Microscopy imaging system and methods" was invented by Qiang Yang (Rochester, N.Y.), Jennifer Hunter (Rochester, N.Y.) and Keith Parkins (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscopy imaging system comprises a fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) system comprising a pulsed light source configured to direct a plurality of excitation light pulses onto a sample, a photo detector configured to detect emitted fluorescent photons created by the plurality of excitation pulses interacting with the sample, and a FLIM data acquisition sy...