US Patent Issued to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Image sensing system and method for imaging" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,602, issued on May 19, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Image sensing system and method for imaging" was invented by Uwe Horchner (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein pertain to systems and methods for imaging. An imaging system may include a castellated optical element, a CMOS image sensor, and color filtering elements. The CMOS image sensor may include focus areas, a line-scan area, a 2D imaging area, and look-ahead gaps. The imaging system may be configured scan and capture bi-directionally, forward-focused brightfield and fluorescence images of one or more slid...