US Patent Issued to Evident on July 14 for "Sample observation apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,285, issued on July 14, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Sample observation apparatus" was invented by Yoshimasa Suzuki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample observation apparatus includes a light source unit, an illumination optical system, an observation optical system, a light detection element, a scanning unit, a holding member, and an image processing device. A light spot is formed by the illumination optical system. The scanning unit moves the light spot and the holding member relative to each other. A pupil of the observation optical system and the light detection element are positioned at a p...