ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,667, issued on May 26, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method and device for microscopy" was invented by Joerg Steinert (Jena, Germany) and Johannes Bautsch (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the following: a) a light field microscope records at least one image of a sample, said image consisting of a set of partial images, b) at least one aberration of the imaging system of the light field microscope is specified by a user and/or established from a set of partial images recorded in step a), c) one or both of steps d) and e) are performed using the aberrations of the im...