US Patent Issued to Fluorescence Microscopy Business Unit (FMBU) of Bruker Nano Surfaces Division on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for rapid depth-scanning in laser imaging" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,284, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fluorescence Microscopy Business Unit (FMBU) of Bruker Nano Surfaces Division (Madison, Wis.).

"Method and apparatus for rapid depth-scanning in laser imaging" was invented by Selcuk Akturk (Madison, Wis.), Jimmy Fong (Madison, Wis.) and Bill Vogt (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for rapid depth-scanning in laser imaging. The method comprises masking selected regions of a laser beam incident on a Bessel-beam-forming optical system to generate line foci with controllable depths and lengths. The use of a digital micromirror device (DMD) as t...