ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,741, issued on July 22, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Control device for a microscope" was invented by Oliver Keul (Wetzlar, Germany), Volker Schacht (Wetzlar, Germany) and Kai Ritschel (Wetzlar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a microscope includes an actuator configured to shift a microscopic field of view relative to a sample, and an operating device configured to be operated by a user to control the actuator in accordance with a response characteristic determining a shift sensitivity. The field of view is shifted relative to the sample in response to a user operation ...