ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,693, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for adjusting and controlling parameters of the illumination area of ophthalmological devices" was invented by Dietrich Martin (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for adjusting and controlling parameters of the illumination area of ophthalmological devices including for example, brightness, color/color temperature, area shape, polarization state. The arrangement according to the invention includes an actuating unit that adjusts the desired lighting parameters, an illumination unit that generates illumin...