ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,828, issued on May 27, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for analysis of a sample by light sheet microscopy" was invented by Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany), Daniel Haase (Zollnitz, Germany), Thomas Kalkbrenner (Jena, Germany) and Jorg Siebenmorgen (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for light sheet microscope examination of a specimen, the specimen being illuminated with a light sheet by an illumination objective, and a light sheet microscope for performing the method. Light emitted by the specimen is imaged onto an area-type detector by a detection objective. An optic...