ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,364, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Method and device for optically examining a biological sample" was invented by Nariman Ansari (Offenbach am Main, Germany) and Falk Schlaudraff (Butzbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optically examining a biological sample includes: preparing a light-activatable specimen including the biological sample; activating a target region of the light-activatable specimen by irradiating activation light into the light-activatable specimen, the activation light being formed by a light sheet that illuminates a plane in the light-acti...