US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 27 for "Apparatus for sensitive fluorescence optical measurement of biological parameters in freely behaving animals" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,958, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Apparatus for sensitive fluorescence optical measurement of biological parameters in freely behaving animals" was invented by Simon Haziza (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for fiber optic-based fluorescence sensing includes a laser for exciting fluorescence at a precisely defined modulation frequency, illumination path optical elements including an axicon lens to homogenize photon density and directionality and a dual static/dynamic diffuser to reduce speckle noise, a flexible optic...