ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,481, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).

"Far-field optical ultrathin slice imaging system and method" was invented by Wei Zhao (Xi'an, China), Ce Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Yueqiang Zhu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A far-field optical ultrathin light sheet imaging system and method are provided. The imaging system comprises a laser device, a beam modulation module, an objective lens, a control box of the microfluidic chip, a microfluidic chip, a narrow bandpass filter, an imaging lens, and an imaging device, wherein the beam modulation module modules a single laser beam emitted by th...