ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,948, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Microscope and function expansion unit" was invented by Yasufumi Fukuma (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Oomori (Tokyo) and Hisashi Tsukada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a microscope including a first optical member configured to guide light from a light source in a first optical axis direction; a first reflecting member configured to guide the light guided in the first optical axis direction in a second optical axis direction substantially orthogonal to the first optical axis direction; a second optical member configured to relay the light guided...