ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,298, issued on June 10, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Translation of images of stained biological material" was invented by Young Hwan Chang (Portland, Ore.), Erik Burlingame (Portland, Ore.), Geoffrey Schau (Portland, Ore.) and Joe W. Gray (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for translating images of biological samples stained according to a first staining technique into images representing the biological samples stained according to a second staining technique. In various implementations, the first staining technique can include a histopathological stainin...