ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,314, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Masaya Nagase (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device detects a cell candidate region for determining a unity of a cell from a vessel image obtained by imaging a vessel in which the cell is seeded and includes at least one processor. The processor performs an acquisition process of acquiring the vessel image, performs a detection process of detecting a cell region including the cell and a cell-like region...