ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,565, issued on March 17, was assigned to ATRIVIOM PRIVATE Ltd. (Deesa, India).

"Compact portable multimodal microscopy" was invented by Jayeshkumar Sevantilal Mevada (Gujarat, India) and Aniruddha Bhalchandra Pandit (Maharashtra Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes a compact portable multimodal microscopy apparatus comprising an optical microscopy unit including one or more microscopy modules, wherein each microscopy module comprises an optical lens assembly with eight to sixteen lens elements having a total magnification in a range of 10x to 2000x; a protective layer disposed on the optical m...