US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNVERSITY on March 31 for "Optical microscope and imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,886, issued on March 31, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan) and KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNVERSITY Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical microscope and imaging method" was invented by Katsumasa Fujita (Osaka, Japan), Kentaro Nishida (Osaka, Japan), Hikaru Sato (Osaka, Japan), Hideo Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Harada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic optical microscope according to the present embodiment includes at least one laser light source (11) configured to generate laser light for illuminating a sample (40) containing a light absorbing material, a lens configured to focus the laser light t...