ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,258, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Kamiina-Gun, Japan).

"Generating a refractive index distribution using a processing-target image captured of a sample" was invented by Yoshimasa Suzuki (Kawasaki, Japan), Satoshi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Shintaro Fujii (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refractive index distribution generation device includes a processor and a memory. The processor performs a refractive index distribution generation process of generating a refractive index distribution corresponding to a processing-target image. The refractive index distribution generation process includes an input pro...