US Patent Issued to CONFOCAL.NL on Oct. 14 for "Rescan optical system, microscope and method" (Dutch, Trinidadian Or Tobagonian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,022, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CONFOCAL.NL B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Rescan optical system, microscope and method" was invented by Stefan Georges Emile Lampaert (Vleuten, Netherlands), Erik Martinus Marie Manders (Charlotteville, Trinidad and Tobago) and Florian Frederik Sterl (Maarssen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A re-scan optical system comprises a scanning element; first optical elements directing light onto the scanning element to provide scanning illumination light; second optical elements directing the scanning illumination light towards a sample, and directing captured sample light onto the scanning element p...