US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Aug. 11 for "Low-costs surgical microscope" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,520, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Low-costs surgical microscope" was invented by Sahand Eftekari (Madison, Wis.), Ellen Shaffrey (Madison, Wis.), Samuel Poore (Madison, Wis.), Weifeng Zeng (Middleton, Wis.) and Aaron Dingle (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robust and low-cost surgical microscope is created by incorporating commercial binoculars intended for close focusing into a housing having a contained mirror system providing both a diversion of the optical path and a reduced distance between the microscope and surgical site thus adapting these binoculars ...