ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,646, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for image segmentation" was invented by Dongyao Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Neil Ira Weisenfeld (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Paul Ryvkin (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for image segmentation. An image having a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of dimensions is obtained. The image is provided to a pretrained machine learning model and a plurality of amplitudes for each of the plurality of pixel is received from the model. Each of the plurality of amplitudes for each of the plurality of pi...