The University of California, San Francisco, has given Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH a license to commercialize a superresolution microscopy technique developed by scientists at the university. Called structured illumination microscopy, the method combines a special illumination pattern with state-of-the-art computational image analysis to produce images with up to double the resolution in all three spatial directions in comparison to those taken with conventional microscopes. The agreement grants the company the right to integrate the technique into its microscope systems.