US Patent Issued to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS on May 20 for "Method, apparatus and computer program for localizing an emitter in a sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,392, issued on May 20, was assigned to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Gottingen, Germany).

"Method, apparatus and computer program for localizing an emitter in a sample" was invented by Roman Schmidt (Gottingen, Germany) and Winfried Willemer (Bovenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for localizing an emitter (F) in a sample (S) comprising illuminating the sample (S) with a stationary donut-shaped excitation beam (E), acquiring fluorescence photons; and estimating a position of the emitter (F) in the sample (S) from the acquired fluorescence photons. The invention further relates to an apparatus ...