US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on May 20 for "Fluorescence microscope and method for imaging a sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,103, issued on May 20, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Fluorescence microscope and method for imaging a sample" was invented by Jonas Foelling (Freiburg, Germany) and Lars Friedrich (Weinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorescence microscope includes excitation and de-excitation light sources designed to generate excitation and de-excitation light distributions, which excite and de-excite fluorophores present in a sample, respectively. An illumination unit is designed to combine the light distributions such that an intensity maximum of the excitation light distribution and an intensity...