US Patent Issued to Haag-Streit on March 17 for "Ophthalmologic microscope with micro-mirror balancing" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,731, issued on March 17, was assigned to Haag-Streit AG (Koniz, Switzerland).

"Ophthalmologic microscope with micro-mirror balancing" was invented by Caspar Trittibach (Bern, Switzerland) and Frank Zumkehr (Zollikofen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ophthalmologic microscope has an illumination device for projecting light onto an eye to be observed and a microscope device with a camera to view the eye. The illumination device generates pulsed light. The light is pulsed at least at twice the frame rate of the camera to reduce flicker. The illumination device uses an array of micro-mirrors as spatial light modulator, a...