ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,487, issued on May 13, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for capturing image data" was invented by Tiemo Anhut (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Schwedt (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a detection beam path, along which detection radiation is guided, and a means for splitting the detection radiation between first and second detection paths, with a detector being in each detection path. A microlens array is arranged upstream of at least one detector. The first detector has a first spatial resolution, and the second detector has a second spatial resolution tha...