US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Imaging on July 8 for "Multi-resolution segmentation for gigapixel images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,262, issued on July 8, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).

"Multi-resolution segmentation for gigapixel images" was invented by Derek Miller (Oceanside, Calif.) and Chad Salinas (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining pixel classification information using images depicting at least a portion of a whole slide image (WSI) of a stained tissue sample. A system can store a first image of the tissue sample at a first resolution, a second image of the tissue sample at a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution, and a third image of the tissue sample at a third...