ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,166, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Microscope device and data generation method using microscope" was invented by Satoshi Ikeda (Yokohama, Japan) and Naoki Fukutake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope device comprises an illumination optical system for illuminating a sample, a detection optical system for receiving light from the sample, a detector for detecting the light from the sample via the detection optical system and outputting a detection signal of the light, a data processor for generating at least one of a three-dimensional refractive index distribution and a two-dimensional phase d...