US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on March 17 for "Methods and apparatus providing calibration of foreground illumination for sample container characterization" (German, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,352, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus providing calibration of foreground illumination for sample container characterization" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Patrick Wissmann (Munich), Ludwig Listl (Munich), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.), Ramkrishna Jangale (Pune, India), Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat (Princeton, N.J.), Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating an imaging device adapted to characterize a feature of a sample container...