ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,358, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method comprising determining a quantitative dispersion image of an object and digital in-line hologram microscope scanner" was invented by Paul Springer (Stuttgart, Germany), Thimo Emmerich (Stuttgart, Germany), Zoltan Facius (Stuttgart, Germany) and Matthias Schinzel (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising determining a quantitative dispersion image of an object based on a set of quantitative phase images, each quantitative phase image of the set of quantitative phase images having been obtained with a respective different illumination l...