US Patent Issued to BD KIESTRA on July 22 for "Methods and systems for automated assessment of antibiotic sensitivity" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,932, issued on July 22, was assigned to BD KIESTRA B.V. (Drachten, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for automated assessment of antibiotic sensitivity" was invented by Raphael Rodolphe Marcelpoil (Corenc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system and method provides automated microbial growth detection for antibiotic sensitivity testing. A processing system having an image sensor for capturing images of an inoculated culture plate having antibiotic disks disposed on the culture media captures images of the plate at separate times (e.g., first and second images). The system generates pixel characteristic data for pixel...