US Patent Issued to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC on March 24 for "System and method for multimodal image acquisition and image visualization" (German, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,622, issued on March 24, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG (Jena, Germany).

"System and method for multimodal image acquisition and image visualization" was invented by Christoph Hauger (Aalen, Germany), Tilman Schmoll (Wien, Australia), Nancy Hecker-Denschlag (Ulm, Germany) and Joachim Steffen (Westhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multimodal image acquisition and image visualization, including a surgical-microscopic system with an optical unit and an image sensor and designed for acquiring a time-resolved image signal of a selected field of view of a sample. The system includes an OCT syste...