ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,858, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for localizing objects by means of a light sheet" was invented by Thomas Kalkbrenner (Jena, Germany) and Jorg Siebenmorgen (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques an apparatuses for localizing objects of a sample that emit detection radiation are disclosed. At least one light sheet is produced in a light sheet plane and a region of the sample to be imaged is illuminated with the light sheet and detection radiation from the sample is spatially resolved in a detection plane. A light sheet is produced that has, in t...