ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,822, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pramana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and methods for slide imaging" was invented by Prasanth Perugupalli (Cary, N.C.), Ganesh Ramamoorthy (Andover, Mass.), Prateek Jain (Bengaluru, India) and Bharathwaj Raghunathan (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of present disclosure relate to slide imaging. An exemplary system for imaging a slide includes at least an optical system, including an optical sensor; a slide port configured to hold a slide; and a first computing device configured to: capture, using the at least an optical system, a plurality of images of the slide, incl...