US Patent Issued to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC on Aug. 5 for "Optical system for eye surgery and method for avoiding an excessive light intensity at a digital image sensor of a surgical microscope" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,990, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG (Jena, Germany).

"Optical system for eye surgery and method for avoiding an excessive light intensity at a digital image sensor of a surgical microscope" was invented by Christian Beder (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system for eye surgery, comprising at least a surgical microscope, an illumination unit for emitting illumination light, and a control unit.The surgical microscope is configured to output an observation mode signal indicating the employed observation mode and a mode-of-operation signal indicating the employed mode of operation, and the...