ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,096, issued on June 3, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Multi-task learning of white light photographs for a surgical microscope" was invented by Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany), Marco Wilzbach (Aalen, Germany), Alexander Freytag (Erfurt, Germany) and Anna Alperovich (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predicting digital images in the form of a digital fluorescence representation together with a further derived representation by means of a combined machine learning system is described. The method comprises providing a first digital image of a tissue sample that was recor...