US Patent Issued on March 11 for "Systems and methods for classification of microbial cells grown in microcolonies" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,197, issued on March 11.

"Systems and methods for classification of microbial cells grown in microcolonies" was invented by Samad Talebpour (Richmond Hill, Canada), Anna Khimchenko (Thornhill, Canada), Maryam Asadishekari (Vaughan, Canada) and Stephen Wesley Leonard (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for classifying microbial cells according to morphological features of microcolonies. A dark-field objective is employed to acquire a dark-field image of a microcolony during a microcolony growth phase that is characterized by phenotypic expression of microcolony morphological features which...