ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,354, issued on May 12, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).
"Light sheet microscope" was invented by Richard Hollinger (Jena, Germany), Jorg Siebenmorgen (Jena, Germany), Helmut Lippert (Jena, Germany) and Ralf Wolleschensky (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light sheet microscope for illuminating a sample arranged in an object plane on a sample carrier, comprising: an illumination device having an objective for illuminating the sample via an illumination beam path with a first light sheet, which intersects the sample volume in a first light sheet plane, the first light sheet plane intersecting the...