ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,219, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.) and Aerocyonics Imaging LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for high-resolution 3D images using laser ablation and microscopy" was invented by Hongbin Choi (Farmington, Conn.), Nicholas May (Farmington, Conn.), Adrian Phoulady (Farmington, Conn.), Sina Shahbazmohamadi (Farmington, Conn.), Pouya Tavousi (Farmington, Conn.) and Daniel Dimase (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a three-dimensional image of a sample. The system comprises a platform configured to support the sample, a laser source...