US Patent Issued to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO on Jan. 13 for "Microorganic detection system using a deep learning model" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,798, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO Corp. (Lansing, Mich.).

"Microorganic detection system using a deep learning model" was invented by Thanh Quoc Tran (Blaine, Minn.) and Hugh Eugene Watson (Prior Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of colony enumeration. The method includes identifying colony forming units of microorganisms in a combined image using a pretrained deep learning model on a colony enumeration device. The method can include providing a plurality of identification characteristics of the colony forming units to an interaction comp...