US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on June 24 for "Microscopy system and method for monitoring microscope activity" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,435, issued on June 24, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Microscopy system and method for monitoring microscope activity" was invented by Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Haase (Zoellnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscopy system comprises a microscope for analyzing a sample, a computing device for processing measurement signals and at least one microphone for capturing sounds. The computing device is configured to evaluate captured sounds in order to identify a microscope activity in progress or command an intervention in the microscope activity in progress or identify ambient so...