US Patent Issued to PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY, NIKON on May 6 for "Cell evaluation method, cell evaluation system and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,519, issued on May 6, was assigned to PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY (Kanagawa, Japan) and NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell evaluation method, cell evaluation system and program" was invented by Hideki Taniguchi (Yokohama, Japan), Takanori Takebe (Yokohama, Japan), Momotaro Ishikawa (Kamakura, Japan), Masafumi Yamashita (Fujisawa, Japan) and Yasujiro Kiyota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell evaluation method includes acquiring a first evaluation index and a first index calculated using the first evaluation index with respect to comparative target cells in a culture process including a cell differentiation...