US Patent Issued to MODULIGHT on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for fluorescence excitation and detection" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,360, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MODULIGHT Corp. (Tampere, Finland).

"Apparatus and method for fluorescence excitation and detection" was invented by Petteri Uusimaa (Tampere, Finland), Elias Kokko (Tampere, Finland), Lasse Orsila (Tampere, Finland) and Matius Hurskainen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus and method for fluorescence excitation and detection. The apparatus comprises one or more light sources for providing excitation light for fluorescence excitation at an observation spot along an optical axis for excitation, an optical collection element for collecting fluorescence light...