US Patent Issued to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 3 for "Focusing device, focusing system, microscope and method for imaging and/or localizing molecules or particles in a sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,702, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Gottingen, Germany).

"Focusing device, focusing system, microscope and method for imaging and/or localizing molecules or particles in a sample" was invented by Benjamin Harke (Gottingen, Germany) and Haugen Mittelstadt (Bovenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focusing device for a microscope includes a first polarization switching element configured to rotate a polarization of a linearly polarized light beam around a first optical axis from a first polarization direction to a second polarization direction upon receiving a switching signal, and a focusing elem...