US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanoimaging on July 21 for "Method for obtaining an optically-sectioned image of a sample, and a device suitable for use in such a method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,712, issued on July 21, was assigned to Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method for obtaining an optically-sectioned image of a sample, and a device suitable for use in such a method" was invented by Bo Jing (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Liyana Valiya Peedikakkal (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Oliver Tedder (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Matthias Steiner (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for obtaining an optically-sectioned image of a sample. The method comprises: providing an illumination beam through an imaging lens such that the illumination beam is focused at a foca...