ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,023, issued on July 14, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Medical optical system, data processing system, computer program, and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Christoph Hauger (Aalen, Germany), Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany) and Gerald Panitz (Bopfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical optical system. The medical optical system comprises: -a microendoscope (3) for capturing histological images, each of which displays a microscopic tissue section (16) of a macroscopic tissue region (15) with a tumor (23); and-a classification device (31) for ...