ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,749, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Tokyo) and SYSMEX Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Disease differentiation support method, disease differentiation support apparatus, and disease differentiation support computer program" was invented by Akimichi Ohsaka (Tokyo), Yoko Tabe (Tokyo) and Konobu Kimura (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a disease differentiation support method for supporting disease differentiation, the disease differentiation support method including: obtaining a first parameter obtained by analyzing an image including a cell contained in a sample collected from a subject...