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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Edge Scientific Instrument Company LLC, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359389 ; 359368 ; 359385 ;
Abstract
An illumination system increasing resolution, sharpness, depth of field, and real time 3D perception of depth for a transmitted light microscope including an objective lens having an optical axis, wherein a plurality of separate light beams passing through a specimen to the objective lens along paths that are oblique to the optical axis of the objective lens. Fiber optic light guides can be used to initiate a light beams that follow the above described paths.