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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:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank Eisenkrämer, Biebertal, DE;
Assignee:
Leica Microsystems Wetzlar GmbH, Wetzlar, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/02 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an absorbent thin-film system made up of alternate metal and dielectric layers. With this system, color-neutral absorption results in the visual spectral region are obtained, as are a defined phase shift and a defined transmission. This film system is used for contrasting methods or contrasting systems in microscopy.