ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,116, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERSCIENCE (St Nom la Breteche, France).
"Image processing process applied to colony counters in microbiology" was invented by Emmanuel Jalenques (St Nom la Breteche, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for counting colonies in a sample in a medium. A bright field image is generated from light transmitted through the sample and the medium in a bright field configuration and collected by a detection unit, and a dark field image is generated from light scattered from the sample and the medium in a dark field configuration and collected by a detection unit. A fusion image is...