ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,839, issued on April 21, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Microscope system and microscope control device" was invented by Koji Imazeki (Nagano, Japan) and Susumu Honda (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope system comprises: a light source; an objective lens; a stage; a two-dimensional image sensor that captures an image of a specimen placed on the stage; a focusing device that changes distance between the objective lens and the stage; and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit executes, during a movement period in which the stage moves in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the o...