US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Method of calibrating a system for reading birefringent data" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,112, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method of calibrating a system for reading birefringent data" was invented by Hugh Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ariel Gomez Diaz (Cambridge, Great Britain), Charles Ernest Whittaker (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Hilton Clegg (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Richard John Black (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a polarized light microscope comprises placing an optical data storage medium in a sample stage of the polarized light microscope, the optical data storage medium comprising a sub...