ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,431, issued on July 21, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for calibrating a medical imaging device and medical imaging device" was invented by Lukas Buschle (Tuttlingen, Germany), Johannes Fallert (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Werner Gobel (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a medical imaging device is provided. The medical imaging device may be an endoscope system or an exoscope system. The medical imaging device includes an optical system with optics and an imaging sensor for capturing an image of a viewing region, and image information of the image being subj...