ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,488, issued on May 13, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Device and method for multi-spot scanning microscopy" was invented by Daniel Schwedt (Jena, Germany) and Tiemo Anhut (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for multi-spot scanning microscopy using a segmented color separator are disclosed, wherein a beam splitter is segmented laterally to a surface normal of the beam splitter into at least two filter fields for the selection of wavelength ranges and/or polarization directions. Individual partial illumination beams are thus each guided in an illumination beam path into a li...