US Patent Issued to PHOMEDICS on Sept. 8 for "Scanning optical microscope" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,289, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PHOMEDICS Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Scanning optical microscope" was invented by Craig James Hamilton (Ralston Paisley, Great Britain) and Gordon Robertson (LarkHall, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning microscope includes an illumination system (160) and an objective lens (134) operable together to provide the excitation radiation (152, 154) in a focal volume (124) at sufficient intensity to cause emission of emission radiation from a sample in the focal volume. The objective lens (134) is scanned by an objective scanner (130, 132). In this example an x-y trans...