US Patent Issued to CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for measuring motility of ciliated cells in respiratory tract" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,668, issued on July 15, was assigned to CHUNG ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for measuring motility of ciliated cells in respiratory tract" was invented by Jun Ki Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo June Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring motility of ciliated cells in a respiratory tract. The method includes the operations of: acquiring image data including a plurality of frames of respiratory tract organoids; identifying positions of ciliated cells by performing motion-contr...