US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Laser illumination for microscope system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,636, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Laser illumination for microscope system" was invented by Anton Viljami Autere (Jarvenpaa, Finland), Simo Kaarlo Tapani Tammela (Espoo, Finland) and Esa Tapani Raikkonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope system includes a laser light source to emit illumination light toward an observation sample. A plurality of optical fibers are disposed along an optical path between the laser light source and the observation sample, such that each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers propagates illumination light towar...