US Patent Issued to SCHOLLY FIBEROPTIC on April 14 for "Image-recording device for improved low light intensity imaging and associated image-recording method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,294, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCHOLLY FIBEROPTIC GMBH (Denzlingen, Germany).

"Image-recording device for improved low light intensity imaging and associated image-recording method" was invented by Michael Schwarzle (Denzlingen, Germany), Matthias Kuhn (Freiburg, Germany), Johannes Bourbon (Freiburg, Germany), Stefan Schroer (Freiburg, Germany) and Lutz Labusch (Emmendingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to improve imaging, in particular for low light intensities, an image recording device, in particular formed as an endoscope, is proposed, which comprises a single photon sensitive detector (SPSD) in addi...