ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,267, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AIXMED INC. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Method and system to obtain cytology image in cytopathology" was invented by Samuel Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Tien-Jen Liu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Yu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems to obtain images associated with target cells distributed in a cytology specimen have been disclosed. One example method includes obtaining a first image associated with a first region of the cytology specimen through a first object lens, determining a first subregion of the first region, obtaining a second set of one or more images ass...