ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,772, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Ophthalmic loupe, lens combination and optical imaging system" was invented by Christian Beder (Oberkochen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic loupe for generating an aerial image of a portion of an eye is provided. The ophthalmic loupe includes at least one lens, which in turn includes at least one aspheric lens face. In combination with the remaining lens faces, the at least one aspheric lens face generates an aerial image of the portion of the eye with a field of view with a negative distortion in its outer region. In this case, the a...