ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,549, issued on June 10, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Optical assembly for an inclined-plane microscope for improving the resolution" was invented by Florian Fahrbach (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical arrangement for an inclined-plane microscope, includes: an optical illumination and detection arrangement, an optical erecting unit for imaging the real intermediate image on a detector, wherein an optical axis of the erecting unit is inclined with respect to an optical axis of the optical illumination and detection arrangement and is oriented substantially perpendicularly to...