US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on May 6 for "Contactless visualization system for a surgical microscope for eye surgery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,560, issued on May 6, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Contactless visualization system for a surgical microscope for eye surgery" was invented by Jonathan Essig (Aalen, Germany), Andre Mueller (Koenigsbronn-Zang, Germany) and Christian Beder (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless visualization system for a microscope for eye surgery includes an ophthalmic loupe positionable in front of a patient's eye and supplies a real and vertically and laterally inverted image of the fundus in an intermediate image plane observable with the microscope. The loupe includes first and second lens elements...