ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,010, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Distinguishing between entities in a blood sample" was invented by Noam Yorav Raphael (Tekoa, Israel), Yuval Greenfield (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph Joel Pollak (Neve Daniel, Israel) and Yonatan Bilu (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including a microscope system configured to acquire first and second images of a blood sample at respective times. A computer processor determines whether, between acquisitions of the first and second images, there was motion of a given entity within the sample, by comparing...