US Patent Issued to AST Revolution on Feb. 10 for "Lens-free holographic optical system for high sensitivity label-free microbial growth detection and quantification for screening, identification, and susceptibility testing" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,118, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AST Revolution LLC (San Francisco).

"Lens-free holographic optical system for high sensitivity label-free microbial growth detection and quantification for screening, identification, and susceptibility testing" was invented by Oleg Gusyatin (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are optical interrogation apparatus that can produce lens-free images using an optoelectronic sensor array to generate a holographic image of sample objects, such as microorganisms in a sample. Also disclosed are methods of detecting and/or identifying microorganisms in a biological sample, such as micr...