ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,195, issued on March 4, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).
"Low-light video system" was invented by Andreas Velten (Madison, Wis.), Trevor Seets (Madison, Wis.), Wei Lin (Madison, Wis.), Christie Lin (Madison, Wis.), Adam Uselmann (Madison, Wis.) and Yizou Lu (Madison, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real time, low-light images, for example, obtained from the fluorescent marker for identifying tumors during surgery, are combined to improve the signal-to-noise ratio using a motion signal derived from corresponding high-light images, for example, taken with a second camera at interleaved intervals...