US Patent Issued to Howard Hughes Medical Institute on Nov. 11 for "Random access projection microscopy" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,136, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Ashburn, Va.).

"Random access projection microscopy" was invented by Kaspar Podgorski (Ashburn, Va.) and Daniel Flickinger (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging a sample providing light from a light source, directing the provided light into an extended focus, scanning the extended focus across a wavefront modulating element that modulates amplitudes of the light along the extended focus, providing the modulated light to the sample, detecting light emitted from the sample in response to excitation by the modulated light, and generatin...