US Patent Issued to University Of Southern California on Sept. 9 for "Optimized photon collection for light-sheet microscopy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,088, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University Of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Optimized photon collection for light-sheet microscopy" was invented by Thai Truong (Los Angeles), Kevin Keomanee-Dizon (Los Angeles) and Scott E. Fraser (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for increasing photon collection during imaging with a light-sheet fluorescence microscope. In one example, one or more adaptive optical elements may be positioned in a detection light path between a detection objective and an imaging sensor. A depth of field of the detection objective is adjusted as a function of a t...