US Patent Issued to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS on July 8 for "Method and device for illuminating a sample in a microscope in points" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,943, issued on July 8, was assigned to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Goettingen, Germany).

"Method and device for illuminating a sample in a microscope in points" was invented by Benjamin Harke (Goettingen, Germany) and Lars Kastrup (Goettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for punctiform illumination of a sample with a MINFLUX microscope has the sample being sequentially illuminated at illumination points of a predefined or predefinable illumination point pattern. The lateral extent of the illumination point pattern is smaller than the longest wavelength of the illumination light. The illumination points are always il...