US Patent Issued to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Method and fluorescence microscope for determining the location of individual fluorescent dye molecules by means of adaptive scanning" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,607, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Gottingen, Germany).

"Method and fluorescence microscope for determining the location of individual fluorescent dye molecules by means of adaptive scanning" was invented by Benjamin Harke (Gottingen, Germany), Christian Wurm (Gottingen, Germany), Lars Kastrup (Gottingen, Germany) and Roman Schmidt (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method for spatially highly accurate location determination of individual dye molecules of a fluorescent dye by scanning with an intensity distribution of a scanning light having a local minimum. T...