ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,357, issued on May 12, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Fluorescence microscope system and method" was invented by Kai Ritschel (Wetzlar, Germany) and Oliver Schlicker (Wetzlar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorescence microscope system including an optical detection system configured to capture a raw image of a sample, the raw image including a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a brightness value and a processor, configured to determine one or more invalid pixels in the raw image, assign a predetermined value to each invalid pixel, determine a range of brightness values including the ...