ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,656, issued on June 23, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Imaging device and method for holographic imaging of samples" was invented by Ziduo Lin (Heverlee, Belgium), Richard Stahl (Rotselaar, Belgium), Geert Vanmeerbeeck (Keerbergen, Belgium) and Abdulkadir Yurt (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an imaging device for holographic imaging of a sample, the imaging device comprising a light source generating a light beam, a beam splitter splitting the light beam into an object beam along an object beam path and a reference beam along a reference beam path, and a dete...