US Patent Issued to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments on July 1 for "Phase mask for structured illumination" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,865, issued on July 1, was assigned to Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Phase mask for structured illumination" was invented by Michael Georgiadis (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a phase mask includes a light blocking layer disposed on a substrate, where the light blocking layer has a number of optically transmissive regions each configured as a first pattern. The first pattern includes two segments that have different phase configurations from each other, and the light blocking layer includes at least three angular orientations of the first pattern."

The patent was filed ...