ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,285, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Speckle-reduced illumination for improved scattering-based microscopy" was invented by Dongkyun Kang (Tucson, Ariz.), Cheng Gong (Tucson, Ariz.) and Christopher David Nguyen (Tucson, Azerbaijan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Speckle-modulated line illumination devices and associated methods are described that enable acquisition of images with high resolution and high speed simultaneously. One example speckle-modulated line illumination device includes a spatially coherent light source having a speckled output, a c...