ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,375, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Observation system and observation device" was invented by Tadashi Hirata (Nagano, Japan) and Shintaro Takahashi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An observation system includes a mounting table on which a sample container is placed, a surface light source that is disposed in one of two regions divided by the mounting table and has a light emitting plane, an observation optical system disposed in the other thereof, a conveyance mechanism moving the observation optical system in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the observation optical system ...