ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,139, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (Munich).

"Method and illumination device of the adaptive optics in transmission or reflection microscopy" was invented by Ivan Vishniakou (Bonn, Germany) and Johannes Dominik Seelig (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing parameters of a physical light propagation model includes providing a physical model of a light propagation in an optical system, radiating an input light distribution using an illumination unit into an excitation path of the optical system, traversing the input light distribution thr...