US Patent Issued to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE on Sept. 30 for "Fluid immersion control for inverted microscopy" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,681, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IDEX HEALTH & SCIENCE LLC (Oak Harbor, Wash.).

"Fluid immersion control for inverted microscopy" was invented by Shane Alexander Rideout (Kirkland, Wash.), Jaime Javier Bravo (Anacortes, Wash.) and Troy N. Sanders (Oak Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid immersion control system may use a common electrode along with a plurality of sensor electrodes at a distal portion of an immersion microscope objective to monitor electrical resistance of a fluid as an indication of presence of a fluid layer used for immersion microscopy. The fluid immersion control system may activate reple...