US Patent Issued to Howard Hughes Medical Institute on July 15 for "Automated adjustment of light sheet geometry in a microscope" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,353, issued on July 15, was assigned to Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Automated adjustment of light sheet geometry in a microscope" was invented by Philipp Johannes Keller (Ashburn, Va.), Raghav Kumar Chhetri (Sterling, Va.) and Loic Alain Royer (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample is imaged using light-sheet imaging. The light-sheet imaging includes generating light, forming one or more light sheets from the light at one or more positions within the sample along respective illumination directions that are parallel with an illumination axis, and recording images of fluorescence emitted alon...