US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Oct. 27 for "Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,425, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Fourier ptychographic imaging systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Guoan Zheng (Vernon, Conn.), Changhuei Yang (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Roarke W. Horstmeyer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods of Fourier ptychographic imaging by computationally reconstructing a high-resolution image by iteratively updating overlapping regions of variably-illuminated, low-resolution intensity images in Fourier space."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2025, under Application No. 19/031,779.

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