ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,618, issued on March 17, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Imaging method and apparatus, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Xuemei Hu (Nanjing, China), Chenxi Qiu (Nanjing, China), Kai Wang (Nanjing, China), Tao Yue (Nanjing, China), Feng Yan (Nanjing, China) and Hongbing Pan (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an imaging method and apparatus, and a medium. The method includes: for a target field of view, performing photographing and quantification at a first resolution, to obtain a first image that has a first bit width; for the target field of view, performing photographing an...