ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,513, issued on July 28, was assigned to Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Microscope-based system and method for image-guided microscopic illumination" was invented by Jung-Chi Liao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yi-De Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Weng Man Chong (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for image-guided microscopic illumination are provided. A processing module controls an imaging assembly such that a camera acquires an image or images of a sample in multiple fields of view, and the image or images are automatically transmitted to a processing module and processed ...