ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,789, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABBERIOR INSTRUMENTS GMBH (Gottingen, Germany).
"Method for localizing or tracking emitters" was invented by Matthias Reuss (Gottingen, Germany) and Roman Schmidt (Gottingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and a microscope for localizing and tracking singulated emitters in a sample. A sample is exposed to an intensity distribution of an illumination light comprising a local intensity minimum in a close region of the singulated emitter. The position of the intensity distribution in the sample fluctuates around a nominal position. The sample is excited t...