ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,409, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Copan Italia S.p.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Device and method for acquiring images of biological samples" was invented by Davide Dabellani (Brescia, Italy), Stefano Gretter (Brescia, Italy), Stefano Oliani (Brescia, Italy), Mirco Bressanelli (Brescia, Italy) and Andrea Mazzolari (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device (1) for observing and for acquiring images of biological samples comprising: a supporting element (2, 2a, 2b) configured for housing a support (3) for biological samples and a first camera (6) oriented toward the supporting element (2, 2a, 2b) and configured for framing a p...