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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:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1996
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 ...
359390 ; 359385 ; 359389 ;
Abstract
An illumination system and method for 3-D viewing and increasing resolution, sharpness, depth of field, and perception of depth for a light microscope including an objective lens having an optical axis, wherein one or more illuminating light beams are focused onto the specimen via paths that include the objective lens and are not coincident with the objective lens optical axis, and reflection beams follow paths that include the objective lens.