US Patent Issued to MIZAR IMAGING, THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Sept. 8 for "Mirror based light sheet illumination system for light microscopy" (North Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,071, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MIZAR IMAGING LLC (Woods Hole, Mass.) and THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Mirror based light sheet illumination system for light microscopy" was invented by Paul Samuel Maddox (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Joel Carter Smith (East Falmouth, Mass.), Bryan William Heck (Mebane, N.C.) and Christopher T. Baumann (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for imaging a sample using fluorescence microscopy. High resolution lenses can be used for light sheet microscopy by tilting the excitation beam relative to the imaging optical axis. The excitation ...