Patent ID: 8705036

Claim:
A method of evaluating static and/or dynamic light scattering, the method comprising the steps of: illuminating within a sample container during various periods of time multiple different spatially separate zones each partitioned into a plurality of different subzones; selecting with a selected observation lens system a spacing of the zones so that mutually independent nonoverlapping observation zones each having a plurality of different subzones belonging to respective zones are obtained and light is scattered on the sample; detecting the scattered light with a plurality of sensors each assigned to a respective observation zone and detecting scattered light from multiple different subzones while the method is being performed and with each sensor detecting scattered light from one subzone during a period of time and generating a signal; and transmitting the signals to an electronic evaluation unit and processing the signals by the electronic evaluation unit with the signals generated by the same sensor and resulting from detection of scattered light from the same subzone and thus in the same period of time being processed together.