US Patent Issued to NIKON on Nov. 11 for "Cell tracking method, image processing device, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,312, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell tracking method, image processing device, and program" was invented by Toru Ichihashi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroaki Kii (Fujisawa, Japan), Tetsuomi Takasaki (Sagamihara, Japan), Takayuki Uozumi (Machida, Japan), Yoichi Yamazaki (Yokohama, Japan) and Masaki Kinehara (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell tracking method for performing cell tracking on the basis of a plurality of cell images captured in time series, including an extraction process of extracting a tracking region corresponding to the cell for each cell images; a tracking process of calculati...