US Patent Issued to UNVEIL on Nov. 3 for "Optical microscope with resonator" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,707, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNVEIL (Verrieres-le-Buisson, France).

"Optical microscope with resonator" was invented by Jean-Jacques Greffet (Verrieres le Buisson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical microscope (200) comprising a light source (201) emitting illumination light (202), an optical device comprising a microscope objective (205), a resonator (212) placed between the optical device and the sample, comprising, successively in a direction of an optical axis of the microscope objective, a first layer having a first optical index, a spacer layer having a second optical index, and a waveguide layer having a...