US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on Sept. 15 for "Method, apparatus and software program for increasing resolution in microscopy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,844, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Method, apparatus and software program for increasing resolution in microscopy" was invented by Yauheni Novikau (Apolda, Germany), Volodymyr Kudryavtsev (Jena, Germany) and Stanislav Kalinin (Weimar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A description is given of a method for increasing resolution in microscopy, comprising providing at least one recorded sample image (22) which was generated by means of a microscope (2), providing a point spread function which characterizes an imaging behaviour of the microscope (2), and calculating a sample image...