ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,551, issued on June 30, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Microscopy system and method for reducing an image vignetting" was invented by Horst Wolff (Siegsdorf, Germany) and Rebecca Elsaesser (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for reducing an image vignetting, a microscope image is captured by means of a microscope, wherein the microscope image exhibits a vignetting. At least the microscope image is input into an image processing model which has been trained, by means of training data comprising input images with vignetting and associated target images without vignetting, to calculate...