US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 15 for "High resolution alignment of 3D imaging with 2D imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,656, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"High resolution alignment of 3D imaging with 2D imaging" was invented by Yonatan Winetraub (Mountain View, Calif.), Edwin Yuan (Stanford, Calif.), Itamar Terem (Menlo Park, Calif.), Caroline Yu (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Adam de la Zerda (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alignment of a 2D image to a corresponding 3D image is provided by writing a pattern into a 3D sample. The pattern is at known positions in the 3D image, and provides visible reference features in the 2D image. This permits accu...