ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,587, issued on June 9, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Objective attachment for a microscope objective and apparatus for feeding and/or removing an immersion liquid" was invented by Christian Dietrich (Jena, Germany), Jens Hofmann (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Ewert (Aalen-Ebnat, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective attachment for a microscope objective for transporting an immersion liquid between a target region on a front side of the microscope objective and a line, comprising at least one cannula having a spout for dispensing and/or receiving the immersion liquid and having a distal opening,...