ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,307, issued on March 3, was assigned to Azure Biosystems Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"Bio-imaging devices and methods of using same" was invented by Diping Che (San Ramon, Calif.), Lipo Xu (Beijing), Sanmen Liu (Beijing), Yanzhou Kang (Beijing) and Zhefu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biological systems and methods of using same are disclosed. The systems comprise a biological imaging device and a mobile computing device in communication therewith. The biological imaging device includes a single-board computer embedded with control software, enabling remote operation and image acquisition from the mobile computing device wi...