Patents by Inventor Luca Lanzano

Luca Lanzano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of stimulated emission depletion microscopy having high spatial resolution
    Patent number: 11372224
    Abstract: Method for increasing the optical resolution of a stimulated emission depletion microscope, or STED microscope (Stimulated Emission Depletion), based on the modulation of the intensity of a STED beam on an arbitrary time scale during the acquisition of an image and the analysis of the induced dynamics, without increasing the intensity of the STED beam and in a simple and economic manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
    Inventors: Luca Lanzano', Paolo Bianchini, Giuseppe Vicidomini, Alberto Diaspro
  • METHOD OF STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY HAVING HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION
    Publication number: 20200333573
    Abstract: Method for increasing the optical resolution of a stimulated emission depletion microscope, or STED microscope (Stimulated Emission Depletion), based on the modulation of the intensity of a STED beam on an arbitrary time scale during the acquisition of an image and the analysis of the induced dynamics, without increasing the intensity of the STED beam and in a simple and economic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Luca LANZANO', Paolo BIANCHINI, Giuseppe VICIDOMINI, Alberto DIASPRO
  • Nanometer-scale optical imaging by the modulation tracking (MT) method
    Patent number: 9110282
    Abstract: An optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved three dimensional images of very small and moving features in live cells and in a matter of seconds. Images of microvilli in live cultured opossum kidney cells expressing NaPi co-transporter proteins with different GFP constructs and images of cell protrusions in a collagen matrix are produced with a resolution of about 20 nm. Along cell protrusions in three dimensional cellular adhesions could be identified to the extracellular matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Luca Lanzano, Michelle Digman, Enrico Gratton
  • NANOMETER-SCALE OPTICAL IMAGING BY THE MODULATION TRACKING (MT) METHOD
    Publication number: 20120250000
    Abstract: An optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved three dimensional images of very small and moving features in live cells and in a matter of seconds. Images of microvilli in live cultured opossum kidney cells expressing NaPi co-transporter proteins with different GFP constructs and images of cell protrusions in a collagen matrix are produced with a resolution of about 20 nm. Along cell protrusions in three dimensional cellular adhesions could be identified to the extracellular matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Luca Lanzano, Michelle Digman, Enrico Gratton