US Patent Issued to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY on May 5 for "Microscope and method for autofocusing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,061, issued on May 5, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Microscope and method for autofocusing" was invented by Nils Langholz (Jena, Germany), Markus Sticker (Jena, Germany) and Thomas Nobis (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method for autofocusing on a microscopic sample, measurement light having a local structure is generated. The measurement light is coupled into the microscope beam path, whereby the measurement light is incident on, and reflected by, the sample. The measurement light reflected by the sample is output from the microscope beam path and split among a plurality of c...