ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,333, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method and device for non-convolutional image processing" was invented by Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Haase (Zoellnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and computer program product are designed for non-convolutional image processing in microscopy of an input image into an output image using an artificial neural network with at least one contracting path including layers, at least one expanding path including layers, and at least one filter kernel. The method includes determining, in one or multiple artificial neu...