ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,538, issued on March 25, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Method for operating a sample chamber for microscopic imaging, apparatus, and sample chamber" was invented by Thomas Kalkbrenner (Jena, Germany) and Ralf Wolleschensky (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample chamber encloses a sample space for positioning a sample and includes a wall that delimits the sample space and has an outer side facing away from the sample space. An illumination beam path is directed through the outer side into the sample space. Detection radiation is detected along a detection axis extending from the sample c...