US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on July 7 for "Sample carrier and method for imaging a sample" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,745, issued on July 7, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Sample carrier and method for imaging a sample" was invented by Soeren Alsheimer (Wetzlar, Germany) and Joachim Bradl (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample carrier for receiving a sample includes an optical medium in which the sample is received, the optical medium having a first refractive index. A window portion defining two parallel surfaces includes an optically transparent material having a second refractive index, and is arranged at a bottom side of the sample carrier. The first and second refractive indices do not deviate...