ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,370, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Observation device and observation method" was invented by Osamu Yasuhiko (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kozo Takeuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hidenao Yamada (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An observation apparatus includes a light source, a mirror, a condenser lens, an objective lens, a beam splitter, an imaging unit, and an analysis unit. The analysis unit includes an interference intensity image acquisition unit, a first complex amplitude image generation unit, a second complex amplitude image generation unit, a phase conjugate operation uni...