ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,863, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GENESEE VALLEY INNOVATIONS LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Micro-object movement monitor to observe controlled micro-object movement" was invented by Maksym Zhenirovskyy (San Jose, Calif.) and Ion Matei (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is disclosed is methods and systems for monitoring micro-object movements. Images depicting micro-objects moving across a backplane is received. Based on processing by a machine learning based image processing model, a first location and orientation of each micro-object in a first image and a second location and orientation of each micro-objec...