ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,021, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VIVENTIS MICROSCOPY SARL (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Microscope for imaging a sample" was invented by Petr Strnad (Lausanne, Switzerland), Andrea Boni (Prilly, Switzerland), Prisca Liberali (Zurich, Switzerland) and Gustavo Quintas Glasner De Medeiros (Lorrach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope is disclosed for imaging a sample. The microscope includes an illumination objective, a further illumination objective, an imaging objective and a further imaging objective, a sample holder, holder support and a drive system arranged to displace the sample holder along three perpendicular...