US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on Nov. 18 for "Optical device, retrofitting set and method for producing light sheets by means of a reflector" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,560, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Optical device, retrofitting set and method for producing light sheets by means of a reflector" was invented by Florian Fahrbach (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device for a microscope includes a reflector assembly including a beam entrance, at which a light beam can be coupled into the reflector assembly, including a beam exit, and including a beam path extending within the reflector assembly. The beam path begins in the reflector assembly at the beam entrance and passes the beam exit multiple times. On each passage o...