US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on July 28 for "Light microscope with automatic focusing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,511, issued on July 28, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Light microscope with automatic focusing" was invented by Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Haase (Zollnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for automatically focusing a microscope, an overview image that shows a sample and an environment is recorded. An image processing algorithm ascertains in the overview image at least one boundary of an object that is not the sample itself. A focus setting is then ascertained at a location of at least one of the ascertained boundaries."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2020, under Applic...