ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,662, issued on March 18, was assigned to COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colo.).
"Phase-sensitive single molecule localization microscopy" was invented by Randy A. Bartels (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Jeffrey J. Field (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes obtaining radiation emitted from a radiation source. The method includes modulating the radiation with a time-varying modulation to generate a time-varying illumination pattern with a known modulation. The illumination pattern includes a time-varying intensity for each of a plurality of spatial locations. T...