ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,995, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).
"FCS method" was invented by Dieter Huhse (Jena, Germany) and Stanislav Kalinin (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an FCS method in which a sample that is to be measured and has fluorescent markers is illuminated with excitation radiation over a bleaching time in order to bleach selected fluorescent markers; and after bleaching has been carried out over at least one measurement period, FCS measurement data of the sample are acquired by illuminating the sample with excitation radiation and by detecting detection radiat...