US Patent Issued to Insitro on May 13 for "Systems and methods for artifact detection and removal from image data" (California, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,856, issued on May 13, was assigned to Insitro Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for artifact detection and removal from image data" was invented by Varun Kanwar (San Francisco), Christopher Probert (Mill Valley, Calif.), Benjamin Dulken (Menlo Park, Calif.), Adelaide Woicik (Bellevue, Wash.) and Zachary R. McCaw (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for filtering out artifacts from a microscopic image of a tissue includes determining a plurality of frequency values corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the microscopic image of the tissue; grouping the plurality of pixels into a plurali...