ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,290, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TILL L.D. GmbH (Planegg, Germany).
"Method for accelerated microscopy of large samples" was invented by Christian Seebacher (Grafelfing, Germany), Andreas Deeg (Munich) and Rainer Uhl (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring microscope-images of sample being larger than a field of view of a microscope, the method comprising creating a continuous relative movement between a sample and the microscope, wherein the optical axis of a microscope objective is substantially perpendicular to the vector of the relative movement, illuminating a part of the sample through the microscop...