ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,177, issued on June 17, was assigned to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"3D interferometric lattice light-sheet imaging" was invented by Alexandros Pertsinidis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is three-dimensional interferometric lattice light-sheet (3D-iLLS) imaging, an approach that overcomes limitations of prior microscopy techniques. 3D-iLLS provides, by virtue of selective-plane illumination (SPIM), low light levels and photobleaching, while providing increased background suppression and significantly improved volumetric imaging/sectioning capabilities through 4Pi interferometry. An example s...