US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss on Dec. 16 for "Method for operating a thermal imaging device depending on a current use situation, and thermal imaging device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,147, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Method for operating a thermal imaging device depending on a current use situation, and thermal imaging device" was invented by Victor Burger (Heidenheim, Germany), Tammo Sebastian Lueken (Rosbach vor der Hohe, Germany) and Christoph Stark (Ellwangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating an electro-optic observation device, in particular a thermal imaging device, which includes an electronic viewfinder, a proximity sensor and a position sensor. According to the method, a predefined distance range in front of the viewfind...