ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,282, issued on July 14, was assigned to WESTLAKE UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Tiling light sheet selective planar illumination microscope, use method thereof and microscope system" was invented by Liang Gao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a tiling light sheet selective plane illumination microscope (TLS-SPIM), a use method thereof and a microscope system. The use method includes loading a corresponding phase map to each group of pupil subsections of a pupil by a spatial light modulator, and performing phase modulation on an excitation beam to create at least two coaxial excitation beam arrays; scanning ...