US Patent Issued to Amgen on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for assessing cell growth rates" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,883, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for assessing cell growth rates" was invented by Yu Yuan (Chicago), Tony Y. Wang (Tiverton, R.I.), Kim H. Le (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Christopher Tan (Los Angeles), Jasmine Tat (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Thorsten Dzidowski (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of facilitating a growth assessment for a cell line includes generating an image of a well that contains a medium that was inoculated with at least one cell of the cell line. The method also includes generating a down-sampled segmentation map comprising pixels that indica...