US Patent Issued to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE COPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES on July 22 for "Circularly polarized light illuminator, analysis device, and microscope" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,521, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE COPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES (Tokyo).

"Circularly polarized light illuminator, analysis device, and microscope" was invented by Hiromi Okamoto (Aichi, Japan) and Tetsuya Narushima (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis device and a microscope use a circularly polarized light illuminator including a light source emitting pulsed light, a polarized light divider dividing the pulsed light from the light source or linearly polarized light extracted from the pulsed light into an x-axis direction polarized light component and ...