ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,649, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Microscope for transmitted light contrasting" was invented by Arnold Mueller-Rentz (Brechen, Germany), Christian Schumann (Lich, Germany) and Sebastian Hitzler (Hohenahr-Erda, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope for imaging a sample by a transmitted light contrasting method includes an objective lens holder configured to place an objective lens of a number of objective lenses onto an optical axis of the microscope. The microscope further includes a lens system for forming an intermediate image of an exit pupil of any one of the nu...