US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Multiphoton imaging methods in a scattering and/or absorbing medium, and articles" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,138, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Multiphoton imaging methods in a scattering and/or absorbing medium, and articles" was invented by Alexander J. Huffman (St. Paul, Minn.), Brian J. Gates (Osceola, Wis.), Jeremy K. Larsen (Farmington, Minn.), David A Ender (New Richmond, Wis.), Gareth A. Hughes (St. Paul, Minn.) and James D. Hansen (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multiphoton imaging method. The method includes a) immersing a semi-submersible microscope objective in a liquid medium that is at least one of scattering or absor...