ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,736, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) and Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cell evaluation method, cell evaluation device, and cell evaluation program" was invented by Motomu Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Akihisa Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Morio Ueno (Kyoto, Japan), Junji Hamuro (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeru Kinoshita (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Munetoyo Toda (Kyoto, Japan) and Chie Sotozono (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell evaluation method evaluates the quality of a cell population including a plurality of cells. The cell evaluation method comprises:...