ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,635, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Andor Technology Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).
"Microscope system with oblique illumination" was invented by John Oreopoulos (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Peter Sinclair (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope system has an illumination optical system comprising a multi-mode optical fibre having an egress for emitting a laser beam. The egress is located in a plane that is conjugate to the microscope sample plane. The illumination optical system is configured such that the laser beam is incident at the objective lens laterally displaced from the principal optical axis of the objectiv...