US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on July 14 for "Sample manipulation device and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,287, issued on July 14, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Sample manipulation device and method" was invented by Falk Schlaudraff (Wetzlar, Germany) and Florian Hoffmann (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample manipulation device includes a manipulation light source configured to emit manipulation light, an objective configured to focus the manipulating light onto the sample to form a manipulation light beam, a scanning unit configured to move the manipulation light beam within a field of view of the objective, a sample positioning unit configured to move the sample relative to an opti...