US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Dec. 30 for "Device for observing a sample by imaging" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,471, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Device for observing a sample by imaging" was invented by Jerome Le Perchec (Grenoble, France) and Mathieu Dupoy (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for observing a sample includes a light source; an image sensor, comprising several pixels; and a microlens array comprising several convergent microlenses, each: microlens being disposed facing a pixel, each microlens comprising an image focus, each microlens being configured to form, from light waves being propagated in parallel incidence, a light wave ...