ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,921, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Clinical support system and associated computer-implemented methods" was invented by Nils Bruenggel (Boniswil, Switzerland), Patrick Conway (Roslindale, Mass.), Jan-Gerrit Hoogendijk (Steffisburg, Switzerland) and Pascal Vallotton (Buchs, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical support system comprises a processor and a display component, wherein: the processor is configured to: receive image data, the image data representing an image of a plurality of cells obtained from a human or animal subject, the image data comprising a plur...