ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,145, issued on Nov. 25.

"Digital microscope for medical procedure" was invented by Sung Baik Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Dongkyun Lee (Mokpo-si, South Korea), Hyeon Cheol Kim (Busan, South Korea) and Minjong Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscope for a medical procedure includes: image sensors 10 creating image data; a lighting prism 20 transmitting an image of an object, which is input, to the image sensors such that an image is formed; pre-lenses 30 disposed in a pair at both sides behind the lighting prism 20 and enlarging an image of an object, and transmitting the image to the image sensors 10; obj...