ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,275, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image processing method and classification model construction method" was invented by Ryo Hasebe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method according to the invention includes obtaining a ground truth image teaching a cell region occupied by a cell in an original image for each of a plurality of the original images obtained by bright-field imaging of the cell, generating a reverse image by reversing luminance of the original image at least for the cell region based on each original image, and constructing a classification mod...