US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften on Sept. 9 for "Optofluidic antenna device and method for detecting at least one photon emitted or scattered by a sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,086, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Munich).

"Optofluidic antenna device and method for detecting at least one photon emitted or scattered by a sample" was invented by Vahid Sandoghdar (Erlangen, Germany), Stephan Goetzinger (Erlangen, Germany) and Luis Esteban Alejandro Morales Inostroza (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optofluidic antenna device (100) for shaping a light field of sample light emitted or scattered by a sample (1) comprises a substrate (10) and a liquid layer (20) being supported by the substrate (10) and being arranged for accom...