ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,984, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yasunori Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus 4 acquire pieces of image data obtained by capturing an image of a target object to be observed by using a microscope 2 at respective positions of an object lens 21 of the microscope 2 while driving the object lens 21 in a light-axis direction of an illumination with which the target object is irradiated, the image being ...