ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,719, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Device and method for imaging an object" was invented by Christian Schumann (Lich, Germany), Christian Schulz (Huettenberg, Germany), Arnold Mueller-Rentz (Brechen, Germany) and Andreas Lotter (Braunfels, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging device for a microscope includes an objective and an optical system configured to interact with the objective for optically imaging an object selectively in a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The optical system includes a first optical subsystem associated with the first ...