ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,433, issued on June 24, was assigned to ARACELI BIOSCIENCES INC. (Tigard, Ore.).
"Compact microscope auto-focus assembly" was invented by Shiou-jyh Ja (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an auto-focus system for a microscope. In one example, a method for the auto-focus system includes focusing the microscope at a glass-specimen interface of a sample by passing a primary laser beam through a beamsplitting device to generate an additional, secondary laser beam that is a mirror image of the primary laser beam. A location of an objective may be triangulated along a longitudinal axis of the ...