US Patent Issued to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC on May 20 for "Confocal scanner, confocal scanner system, and confocal microscope system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,389, issued on May 20, was assigned to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Confocal scanner, confocal scanner system, and confocal microscope system" was invented by Takayuki Kei (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A confocal scanner (21) according to the present disclosure includes a first pinhole array disk (211a), a second pinhole array disk (211b), a condensing element array disk (212) located between the first pinhole array disk (211a) and the second pinhole array disk (211b), a connecting shaft (213) connecting the first pinhole array disk (211a), the second pinhole array disk (211b), and the condensing element array...