US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on April 22 for "Method and system for enhanced photon microscopy" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,147, issued on April 22, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Method and system for enhanced photon microscopy" was invented by Weidong Yang (Penn Valley, Pa.) and Andrew Ruba (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a photon enhancement apparatus comprising a reflective component and 4f coherent imaging system, which increases a photon collection efficiency. The present invention also provides a microscope comprising said photon enhancement apparatus and methods of improving photon collection efficiency, signal-to-noise ratio, and/or opti...