US Patent Issued to SRI International on July 14 for "Apparatuses and methods involving multi-modal imaging of a sample" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,022, issued on July 14, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods involving multi-modal imaging of a sample" was invented by Jenn-Kwei Tyan (Princeton, N.J.) and Michael Raymond Piacentino (Robbinsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a light source, first and second polarizers, an image sensor, a filter, and control circuitry. The light source outputs a light beam, and the first polarizer passes first polarized light from the output light beam and toward a sample. The image sensor collects light reflected from the sample responsive to the passed first polarize...