US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on Sept. 23 for "Controller for an imaging device and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,365, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Controller for an imaging device and method" was invented by Irmtraud Steinmetz (Wetzlar, Germany) and Luis Alvarez (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for an imaging device is configured to control an optical detection unit to receive fluorescence light emitted by first and second fluorophore species excited by first and second excitation light, respectively, to separate the fluorescence light into at least two spectral detection channels corresponding to two wavelength bands, respectively. A first wavelength band inc...