ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,463, issued on June 17, was assigned to LA TROBE UNIVERSITY (Melbourne, Australia).
"Microscopy method and system" was invented by Brian Abbey (Melbourne, Australia) and Eugeniu Balaur (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample holder for use in an optical microscope is disclosed. The sample holder includes a plasmonic layer defining a periodic array of sub-micron structures wherein the periodic array of sub-micron structures comprise an array of separated plasmonic regions. The regions may be a circle, a torus, an ellipse, a cross, rectangle, square, line, strip. Methods of performing reflection and fluorescence m...