US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on May 12 for "Processor for lifetime-based unmixing in fluorescence microscopy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,523, issued on May 12, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Processor for lifetime-based unmixing in fluorescence microscopy" was invented by Luis Alvarez (Wetzlar, Germany), Frank Hecht (Wetzlar, Germany), Julia Roberti (Wetzlar, Germany) and Giulia Ossato (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor for lifetime-based unmixing in fluorescence microscopy is configured to acquire an image having a plurality of pixels, each pixel providing information on photon count and photon arrival times, generate a phasor plot that is a vector space representation of the image, partition the image into i...