ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,540, issued on March 25, was assigned to Vieworks Co. Ltd. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition device and image acquisition method" was invented by Mingyu Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Yu Jung Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea), Chang Woo Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Kyoung Ryoul Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image acquisition device including: a stage on which a slide is mounted; an objective lens disposed to face a sample; a beam split unit separating light from the sample, which is incident through the objective lens into at least two, and delivering the separated lights; at least t...