ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,663, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Control device for a microscope" was invented by Oliver Keul (Nauborn, Germany), Volker Schacht (Marburg, Germany) and Kai Ritschel (Heuchelheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a microscope includes an operating device, an actuator and a processor. The operating device is configured to be operated by a user to vary focusing and/or positioning of an optical imaging system of the microscope relative to a sample. The actuator is configured to adjust an aperture of a detection pinhole which is included in the microscope...