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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:
Jan. 07, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 24, 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 perception of depth for a transmitted light microscope including a condenser lens having an optical axis, objective lens having an optical axis, wherein a plurality of separate light beams pass through the condenser lens along paths that are not coincident with the condenser lens optical axis and which follow exit paths from the condenser lens which pass through the objective lens and which are at an oblique angle to the optical axis of the objective lens.