ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,141, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Thorlabs Inc. (Newton, N.J.).
"Compact laser scanning microscope system" was invented by Hongzhou Ma (Centreville, Va.) and Jeffery S. Brooker (Manassas, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanning imaging system including: a first beam scanner; a first set of relay lenses; a second beam scanner; a second set of relay lenses; an objective lens; wherein the first beam scanner is configured to receive an input laser beam and scan the laser beam about one or more axes; the first set of relay lenses is configured to expand the laser beam scanned by the first beam scanner and conjugate a sca...