US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Nov. 4 for "Open-top light-sheet microscopy with a non-orthogonal arrangement of illumination and collection objectives" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,355, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Open-top light-sheet microscopy with a non-orthogonal arrangement of illumination and collection objectives" was invented by Adam K. Glaser (Seattle) and Jonathan T. C. Liu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for an open-top light-sheet (OTLS) microscope which includes an illumination objective and a collection objective which have optical axes which are non-orthogonal to each other. The optical axis of the collection objective may be orthogonal to a plane of the sample holder. The illumination and collection objective may...