ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,268, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Device and method for measuring fluorescence signal in multi-illumination mode, and use of the method" was invented by Lusheng Gu (Beijing), Wei Ji (Beijing), Tao Xu (Beijing) and Yanhui Fu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a device and method for measuring fluorescence signal in multi-illumination mode and use of the method. An excitation light is modulated on an illumination excitation light path, to generates excitation illumination patterns at different phases on a sample after passing through an objective ...