ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,579, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to S.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Detecting platelets in a blood sample" was invented by Peretz Yafin (Kdumim, Israel), Dan Gluck (Kadima, Israel), Amir Zait (Binyamina, Israel), Yochay Shlomo Eshel (Sde Warburg, Israel), Sarah Levy (Jaffa, Israel) and Joseph Joel Pollak (Neve Daniel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided including imaging a blood sample that is a cell suspension deposited in a sample chamber. The cells are allowed to settle in the sample chamber to form a monolayer of cells. At least one microscopic image is acquired of the mon...