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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Jena, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, Jena, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/14 (2006.01); A61B 3/12 (2006.01); A61B 3/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/1208 (2013.01); A61B 3/12 (2013.01); A61B 3/14 (2013.01); A61B 3/156 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for fundus imaging are presented that use sequential selective illumination patterns to suppress unwanted reflections, scattering and haze from various optical components of a fundus-viewing instrument. This is particularly the case with those unwanted reflections produced by the objective lens contained within said instrument.