ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,057, issued on May 5, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Light-field microscopy image capturing method and light-field microscope" was invented by Tiemo Anhut (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Schwedt (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a light-field microscope and a light-field microscopy image capturing method, including the steps of providing an illumination radiation from at least one light source; modulating the illumination radiation by virtue of adjusting the intensity distribution thereof; generating a dynamic light sheet in a sample space, in which a sample to be imaged can...