US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Apparatus and method to convert a regular bright-field microscope into a PS-QPI system" (Colombian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,100, issued on March 24.

"Apparatus and method to convert a regular bright-field microscope into a PS-QPI system" was invented by Ana Doblas (Cordova, Tenn.), Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia (Medellin, Colombia) and Rohan Isaac (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and related methods for the conversion of a regular bright-field microscope into a PS-QPI (Polarization-Sensitivity and Quantitative Phase Imaging) microscope system. A regular bright-field microscope is converted by insertion of a polarizing element in the illumination path and a Fresnel biprism in the image space of the system. The converted system...