US Patent Issued to THERMO ELECTRON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Optical configurations for high resolution microscopy" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,073, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THERMO ELECTRON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS LLC (Madison, Wis.).

"Optical configurations for high resolution microscopy" was invented by John Eichorst (Verona, Wis.) and Julian Irwin (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical configurations for confocal structured illumination Raman (C-SIM Raman) microscopy systems are provided. One example includes a light source configured to project a light; a first set of optical components fixedly aligned along a first optical path, wherein the first set of optical components includes a vortex phase plate and a quarter wave plate, wherein the first s...