US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RESERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT D' OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX on Feb. 10 for "Confocal microscope with photon re-allocation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,980, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RESERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), INSTITUT D' OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL (Palaiseau, France) and UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX (Bordeaux, France).

"Confocal microscope with photon re-allocation" was invented by Alberto Aguilar (Bordeaux, France) and Pierre Bon (Villenave d'Ornon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning confocal photon-reassignment microscope is configured to operate in a coherent (reflectance or transmission) imaging mode and having a confocal pinhole the diameter of which is between 2 and 4 Airy units. The microscope can be used to observe viral particles in ...