ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,632, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NANOLIVE SA (Tolochenaz, Switzerland).
"Optical diffraction tomography microscope" was invented by Sebastien Equis (Penthalaz, Switzerland), Yann Cotte (Saint Saphorin sur Morges, Switzerland) and Pierre-Alain Cotte (Amberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical diffraction tomography microscope (2) comprising an illumination system (4) configured for transmitting a sample beam through a sample observation zone, a detection system (8) comprising at least one image sensor (54), and a wave collection system (6) comprising a lens (16) downstream of the sample observation zone configured f...