ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,379, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method for correcting background signals in captured measurement values of analog detectors" was invented by Stanislav Kalinin (Jena, Germany) and Dieter Huhse (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be used for correcting background signals in captured measurement values of analog detectors, wherein measurement values of an object captured over a reference time period are analyzed and characteristic values of captured background signals are determined. What is characteristic of this is that a threshold value is determined on the b...