US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Aug. 26 for "Ultra-compact microsystems-based single axis confocal endomicroscope" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,625, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Ultra-compact microsystems-based single axis confocal endomicroscope" was invented by Thomas D. Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiyu Duan (San Jose, Calif.), Gaoming Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Haijun Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact single-axis confocal endomicroscope is provided, capable of complying within 2.8 mm diameter endoscope space requirements. The single-axis confocal endomicroscope uses a folded path design achieved between a fixed mirror and a lateral plane scanning mirror thereby producing a high nu...