ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,981, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FLASH PATHOLOGY B.V. (Amsterdam).
"Femtosecond pulsed microscopy" was invented by Frank Van Mourik (Uithoorn, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for femtosecond-pulsed microscopy, preferably non-linear microscopy. The microscopy system comprises a laser source for providing a pulse train comprising a series of femtosecond pulses and a pulse picker for selecting one or more bursts of pulses from the pulse train. Each of the one or more bursts comprises a plurality of consecutive pulses. The one or more bursts may comprise less than 25%, e.g., less than 1...